... 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 on his house and goods. The tax does him no good at the time, and possibly may never bring him a return. But if... The Popular Science Monthly - الصفحة 4481887عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Charles Edward Skinner, Ira Morris Gast, Harley Clay Skinner - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 882
...and possibly may never bring him a return. But if the fire does come, his having paid it will be his salvation from ruin. So with the man who has daily...his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in a blast. The physiological study of mental conditions is thus the most powerful ally of hortatory ethics.... | |
| William Frederick Book - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...the exceptions or slips described in section (3) above. James writes as follows : A man who has thus daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in little and unnecessary things, will stand like a tower of strength when everything rocks about him,... | |
| Frank Channing Haddock - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 122
...and possibly may never bring him a return. But, if the fire does come, his having paid it will be his salvation from ruin. So with the man who has daily...like a tower when everything rocks around him, and his softer fellow mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast." § 21. The value of this advice may... | |
| Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...Giants in New York City. McGraw (page 85), manager of the Giants. Harris is manager of the Senators. The man who has daily inured himself to habits of...energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things, will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed... | |
| William Walker Atkinson - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. * * * The man who has daily inured himself to habits of...energetic volition, and 'self-denial in unnecessary things will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow mortals are winnowed... | |
| Charles Paine - 1999 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...volition, and self-denial." An individual who had been endowed with self-mastery through habit would "stand like a tower when everything rocks around him,...fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast" (quoted in Townsend 173-75). If the individual were to maintain a "manly independence" coupled with... | |
| Theron Q. Dumont - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 189
...has daily insured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volation, and self -denial in unnecessary things. "He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him and his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast." The young should be made to concentrate... | |
| William James - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 709
...urtiele by Miss V, Seuetder on 'Musical Devotees aud Morals,' in the Audover Bev iew for January 1887. daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention,...study of mental conditions is thus the most powerful vally of hortatory ethics. The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no wocse than... | |
| William James - 2007 - عدد الصفحات: 709
...nrtiele by Miss V, Seuetder on 'Musical Devotees aud Morals,' in the Audover Bev iew for January 1887. daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention,...energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary tilings, He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals... | |
| 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 816
...and possibly may never bring him a return. But if the fire does come, his having paid it will be his salvation from ruin. So with the man who has daily...fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast." Here is another: Particular ideas, excited it may be by perceptions, certainly do produce widespread... | |
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