| Charles Edward Skinner, Ira Morris Gast, Harley Clay Skinner - 1926 - 882 páginas
...mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never...vice leaves its never so little scar. The drunken Eip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh, dereliction by saying, 'I won't... | |
| Samuel Thurber - 1924 - 172 páginas
...mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never...Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh... | |
| Joseph Evans - 1928 - 352 páginas
...mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil and never...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. Of course, this has its good... | |
| 1918 - 580 páginas
...who said, "We are spinning our own fates. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's...won't count this time!' Well, he may not count it, and kind heaven may not count it ; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and... | |
| Robert Sessions Woodworth - 1911 - 334 páginas
...mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. Ill The mean square deviation equals the square root of the average of the squares of the deviations... | |
| William Russell White - 1951 - 1006 páginas
...the grain . . ." — Dewey. "Man is more moral than he thinks and far more animal than he imagines!" "Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out . . ." — James. ". . . Morality... | |
| James McKeen Cattell - 1917 - 588 páginas
...mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never...its never so little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, " I won't count this time! " Well, he may not... | |
| Frederick J. Ruf - 1991 - 216 páginas
...world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way." He follows with platitudinous sayings. "We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar." He reminds readers of the omniscient eye that follows their actions: "a kind Heaven may not count [every... | |
| John Kekes - 1997 - 260 páginas
...Moral Responsibility (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986). 3 "We are spinning our fates, good and evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke...virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. . . . [We] may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among . . . [our] nerve cells... | |
| Albert Haberstro - 1996 - 114 páginas
...bundles of habits, they would give more attention here to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never...to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue, or vice leaves its never-so-little scar. The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself... | |
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