 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...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3091900Full view - About this book
 | 1901 - 872 pages
...the literary side of the drama appears so Irrelevant and academic. Le inicii.r est I'ennemi du Wen to every non-artistic conscience; and "capacity for...very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance." As a race we British do more than distrust — we dislike... | |
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...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 killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance ; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 pages
...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 killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 pages
...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 killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance ; and, in the majority of young persons, it speedily dies... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 pages
...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 killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away... | |
 | 1879 - 736 pages
...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 killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance ; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 390 pages
...come, the higher powers have disappeared for want of cultivation. " 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." (JS Mill.) Herbert Spencer defines life to be "The continuous... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 pages
...come, the higher powers have disappeared for want of cultivation. " 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." (JS Mill.) Herbert Spencer defines life to be " The continuous... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1879 - 288 pages
...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 killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance ; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies... | |
 | Ernest Faulkner Brown - 1881 - 86 pages
...eager and strong. But beware: it is even John Stuart Mill who says, " 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... | |
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