The time of wooing should not be protracted, and as a ruleafter a year the parties should either become engaged or decide theyare not well matched. Moralists are in agreement on the following points:(a) the standard for measuring gravity of matter is not an invariableone, but will differ according to circumstances of times and places. (a) Thus, the sin of excess is not found in the quantity of obedience,for the more obedient a subject is, the more is he worthy of praise. 15, 16) and is always able to make believe that his avarice is prudenceor some other virtue (Wis.
23),and declares that it is not what enters the mouth that defiles (Matt. Laws of the First and Second Tables, 338. , birds, foxes, fishes, hares, etc. Innocent XI condemned the proposition that domestic servants maypractise occult compensation when they decide that their services areworth more than the salary they are receiving (Denzinger, n.
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