 | James Madison Stifler - 1925 - 184 páginas
...said about this experiment with the thirteen virtues, "As I knew or thought I knew what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other." The idea of acquiring virtue by deliberate practice did not evaporate with this one experiment. More... | |
 | William Frederick Book - 1926 - 506 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another ; habit took the... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and the wood thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager,...field sparrow, the whippoor-will, and many others. care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage'... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 páginas
...or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not sec why 'I might not always do the one and avoid the other....task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew or thought I knew what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other." So he prepared his moral code of all the virtues he thought necessary, with his comments thereon, and... | |
 | Everett H. Emerson - 1977 - 328 páginas
...people could lead him was indeed naive and arrogant: "As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...than I had imagined. While my Attention was taken up in guarding against one Fault, I was often surpriz'd by another. Habit took the Advantage of Inattention.... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employ'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage... | |
 | L. Rust Hills - 1993 - 276 páginas
...would be just as easy to be good as it was to do all those other things. "But I soon found," he says, "I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined." The main trouble was that bad habits "took advantage of inattention." His theory was that good habits... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employ'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage... | |
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It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As... 
