To prevent any doubts concerning the veracity of these translations, I must here declare, that I am indebted for them, and for several anecdotes concerning that language, to a man of letters, who is a native and has long been an inhabitant of the Grisons, and is lately come to reside in London.

I have hardly any memory of how the man looked, but it should be an easy task to find him and if you cannot do that, the smallest scrap of the note he gave me, and which unfortunately I tore up and scattered to the winds, would prove my veracity in this one particular and so make it easier for them to believe the rest.

Truth has to do with the accuracy of the statement, of the facts; veracity with the intention of the person to say nothing false.

Duty of Veracity to Lower Animals.

And there was a definite issue of veracity between him and his mistress.

" Dr. Thornwell bases this obligation of veracity on the nature of God, and on the duty of man to conform to the image of God in which he was created.

Yet the very way in which Herodotus tells to the credit of the Persians that they allowed no place for the lie in their ethics seems to indicate his apprehension of a higher standard of veracity than that which was generally observed among his own people.

And in addition to the obligation of veracity as a duty to one's self, Dr. Smyth recognizes it as a duty to others.

In short, having made up their minds that what I said was not true, they had an answer ready for all that I could urge in support of my character; and those who judged most christianly, defended my veracity at the expense of my understanding, and ascribed my conduct to partial insanity.

Those solemn Bores, the Latin augurs, were in the habit of foretelling the triumph or downfall of the Roman Eagles by the flight of Crows, and St. PETER was once convicted of three breaches of veracity by a Crow.

And this is a crime against society, for “they who tamper with veracity from whatever motive are tampering with the vital force of human progress.”

Does he seem in those premises to put veracity below chastity, and falsehood below personal impurity?

As we have few materials for Mrs. Pilkington's life, beside those furnished by herself in her Memoirs published in 1749, our readers must depend upon her veracity for some facts which we may be obliged to mention, upon her sole authority.

He was an Episcopal clergyman, by the way, and I considered that his testimony would uphold my fast-sinking character for veracity among my townspeople.

Now you may ask, "Why could they not bring their much boasted veracity into their new business relations and so reform the old abuses?"