 Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed not only by hostile influences but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position...  Advanced Manual of Latin Prose Composition - Page 176by B. D. Turner - 1893 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 608 pages
...every non-artistic conscience ; and ' capacity for the nobler ' feeling,' said Stuart Mill long ago, ' is in most natures a ' very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influ' ences, but by mere want of sustenance.' As a race we British do more than distrust — we dislike... | |
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...before they devote themselves exclusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures...occupations to which their position in life has devoted them.and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Decision making - 1863 - 120 pages
...before they devote themselves exclusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures...favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...before they devote themselves exclusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the } nobler feelings is in most natures...favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise^ Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...before they devote themselves exclusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures...the society into which it has thrown them, are not favorable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men lose their high aspirations as they lose... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...before they devote, themselves exclusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures...favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise. Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time... | |
 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 398 pages
...season never comes, or if it does come, the higher powers have disappeared for want of cultivation. " Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures...hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance." (JS Mill.) Herbert Spencer defines life to be " The continuous adjustment of internal relations to... | |
 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 390 pages
...season never comes, or if it does come, the higher powers have disappeared for want of cultivation. " Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures...hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance." (JS Mill.) Herbert Spencer defines life to be "The continuous adjustment of internal relations to external... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1871 - 136 pages
...before they devote themselves exclusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily filled, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance ; and in the majority of young... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1873 - 408 pages
...before they devote themselves exelusively to the one, they have already become incapable of the other. Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, eiisily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance ; and, in the majority... | |
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