The Minor Moralist: Some Essays on the Art of Everyday ConductE. Arnold, 1903 - 247 pàgines |
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... more vigilance is needed , in that the worship of speed on which our existence is to a quite horrible extent based to - day is insensibly acting on our characters , and bend- ing our moral code into new and strange shapes ; A PLEA 5.
... more vigilance is needed , in that the worship of speed on which our existence is to a quite horrible extent based to - day is insensibly acting on our characters , and bend- ing our moral code into new and strange shapes ; A PLEA 5.
Pàgina 73
... characters deteriorate as our physical con- stitutions are bound to do , with the passage of time ? Not if we are careful to keep a watch over the innate proclivities by which we are so mysteriously governed . This is not an idle query ...
... characters deteriorate as our physical con- stitutions are bound to do , with the passage of time ? Not if we are careful to keep a watch over the innate proclivities by which we are so mysteriously governed . This is not an idle query ...
Pàgina 80
... character , with respect to which the middle - aged are perhaps at a special dis- advantage , not because they are naturally more wicked than the young , but simply because they have unhappily no one who is entitled to point out to them ...
... character , with respect to which the middle - aged are perhaps at a special dis- advantage , not because they are naturally more wicked than the young , but simply because they have unhappily no one who is entitled to point out to them ...
Pàgina 84
... character and its effect upon other people ; for they are , and they should be , much too busy perceiving , learning , expand- ing , choosing careers , love - making , wondering , yearning , distinguishing , to be able to con- centrate ...
... character and its effect upon other people ; for they are , and they should be , much too busy perceiving , learning , expand- ing , choosing careers , love - making , wondering , yearning , distinguishing , to be able to con- centrate ...
Pàgina 94
... character , based mainly on considerations of our own idio- syncrasies , comfort , or convenience , on the regrettable discrepancies we find between our own point of view and that of the persons we are instructing . Our experi- ence ...
... character , based mainly on considerations of our own idio- syncrasies , comfort , or convenience , on the regrettable discrepancies we find between our own point of view and that of the persons we are instructing . Our experi- ence ...
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The Minor Moralist: Some Essays on the Art of Everyday Conduct Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell Visualització completa - 1903 |
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