“Pleading is an exact setting forth of the truth.”
Robert Atkyns (judge) (1621–1710) Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords
11 How. St. Tr. 1243.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)
“Pleading is an exact setting forth of the truth.”
Robert Atkyns (judge) (1621–1710) Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords
11 How. St. Tr. 1243.
Trial of Sir Edward Hales (1686)
“I now propose briefly to… set forth”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 74
Context: I now propose briefly to... set forth, in a form intelligible to those who possess no special acquaintance with anatomical science, the chief facts upon which all conclusions respecting the nature and the extent of the bonds which connect man with the brute world must be based: I shall then indicate the one immediate conclusion which, in my judgment, is justified by those facts, and I shall finally discuss the bearing of that conclusion upon the hypotheses which have been entertained respecting the Origin of Man.
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805–1844) American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 199 (9 July 1843)
1840s
John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IX, Section 87, p. 586
Context: I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Mar. 2001, 64.
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
Press Release, 2004-02-24 http://myclob.pbwiki.com/02-24-2004 <br class="br">2003–2007 Governor of Massachusetts
“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
William Congreve The Double Dealer
Act II, scene iii
The Double Dealer (1694)
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) British philosopher and political economist
"Civilization," London and Westminster Review (April 1836)
Context: We are not so absurd as to propose that the teacher should not set forth his own opinions as the true ones and exert his utmost powers to exhibit their truth in the strongest light. To abstain from this would be to nourish the worst intellectual habit of all, that of not finding, and not looking for, certainty in any teacher. But the teacher himself should not be held to any creed; nor should the question be whether his own opinions are the true ones, but whether he is well instructed in those of other people, and, in enforcing his own, states the arguments for all conflicting opinions fairly.
“Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.”
Menander (-342–-291 BC) Athenian playwright of New Comedy
Unidentified fragment 651.