 Pity, though it is the most gentle and the least mischievous of all our passions, is yet as much a frailty of our nature as anger, pride, or fear. The weakest minds have generally the greatest share of it, for which reason none are more compassionate...  Ethnologisches notizblatt - Side 411899Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Singleton Waters Davis - 1910 - 170 sider
...from." And he considered pity and compassion as only counterfeits of true charity — that " pity is as much a frailty of our nature as anger, pride, or fear." But the fallacy of this is completely exposed by the demonstrations of biological science that anger,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1912 - 104 sider
...are those that spring from pride and the sense of power and the desire of luxury. "Pity," he adds, "though it is the most gentle and the least mischievous...a frailty of our nature, as anger, pride, or fear. The weakest minds have generally the greatest share of it, for which reason none are more compassionate... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1913 - 702 sider
...are those that spring from pride and the sense of power and the desire of luxury. " Pity," he adds, "though it is the most gentle and the least mischievous...a frailty of our nature, as anger, pride, or fear. The weakest minds have generally the greatest share of it, for which reason none are more compassionate... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1913 - 334 sider
...are those that spring from pride and the sense of power and the desire of luxury. " Pity," he adds, "though it is the most gentle and the least mischievous...a frailty of our nature, as anger, pride, or fear. The weakest minds have generally the greatest share of it, for which reason none are more compassionate... | |
 | Пауль Барт - 1922 - 904 sider
...Affekte, dennoch aber ebensosehr eine Schwäche unserer Natur wie Zorn, Stolz oder Furcht" („Pity, tho' it is the most gentle and the least mischievous of all our passiona. is yet »s much a frailty of our nature, äs anger, pride or fear"). 7) Vgl. oben S. 278.... | |
 | Abraham Aaron Roback - 1927 - 632 sider
...accepted virtues into their mental components and in the light of the situation of which they are a part. Pity, though it is the most gentle and the least mischievous...much a frailty of our nature as anger, pride or fear. The weakest minds have generally the greatest share of it, for which reason none are more compassionate... | |
 | Paul Barth - 1915 - 892 sider
...Affekte, dennoch aber ebensosehr eine Schwäche unserer Natur wie Zorn, Stolz oder Furcht" („Pity, tho' it is the most gentle and the least mischievous of all our passions, is yet as much a frailty of onr nature, as anger, pride or fear"). ') Vgl. oben S. 278. 8) Vgl. Ethica IV, Propos. 53. Einwand... | |
 | Henk de Wild - 1986 - 340 sider
...Performance, unless we are throughly acquainted with the Principle and Motive from which he acts. Pity, tho'it is the most gentle and the least mischievous of all...a Frailty of our Nature, as Anger, Pride, or Fear. The weakest Minds have generally the greatest Share of it, for which Reason none are more Compassionate... | |
 | David Daiches Raphael - 1991 - 440 sider
...performance, unless we are thoroughly acquainted with the principle and motive from which he acts. Pity, though it is the most gentle and the least mischievous...a frailty of our nature, as anger, pride, or fear. The weakest minds have generally the greatest share of it, for which reason none are more compassionate... | |
 | Bernard Mandeville, E. J. Hundert - 1997 - 268 sider
...man's performance unless we are thoroughly acquainted with the principle and motive from which he acts. Pity, though it is the most gentle and the least mischievous...a frailty of our nature as anger, pride, or fear. The weakest minds have generally the greatest share of it, for which reason none are more compassionate... | |
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