 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 1148
...hour of dire need draws nigh it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. Asceticism of this sort 'is like the insurance which a man pays...But if the fire does come his having paid it will bä his salvation from ruin. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated... | |
 | 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 982
...find you not unarmed and untrained to stand the test. Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance a man pays on his house and goods. The tax does him...good at the time, and possibly may never bring him in a return. But if the fire does come, his having paid it will be his salvation from ruin. So with... | |
 | 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 904
...pays on his house and goods. The tax does him no good at the time, and possibly may never bring him in a return. But if the fire does come, his having paid it will be bis salvation from ruin. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention,... | |
 | William James - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 26
...find you not unarmed and untrained to stand the test. Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance a man pays on his house and goods. The tax does him...good at the time, and possibly may never bring him in a return. But if the fire does come, his having paid it will be his salvation from ruin. So with... | |
 | William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays...inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything... | |
 | William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 80
...of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. /Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays...inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything... | |
 | William James - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...hour of dire Heed draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays...be his salvation from ruin. So with the man who has * See for remarks on this subject a readable article by Miss V. Scuddei on ' Musical Devotees ami Morals,'... | |
 | 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 1252
...hour of dire need draws nigh it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays...But if the fire does come his having paid it will ba his salvation from ruin. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...behind the pontifical robe to be flashed out with effect when the moment should come." (c.) " Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays...does him no good at the time, and possibly may never give him a return. But if the fire does come, his having paid it will be his salvation from ruin. So... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays...inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything... | |
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That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained... 
