 | Henry Churchill King - 1905 - 316 sider
..."Doubt of any kind cannot 1 The Facts of the Moral Life, p. VI. *A System of Ethics, Eng. Tr., p. aoo. be removed, except by action. On which ground, too,...darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart — Do the duty which lies nearest thee."... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 sider
...certainty of Experience does it find any centre to revolve round, and so fashion itself into a 176 system. Most true is it, as a wise man teaches us,...which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkiso ness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1911 - 320 sider
...vortices : * only by a felt indubitable certainty of Experience does it find any centre to revolve round, and so fashion itself into a system. Most true is it, as a wise man teaches us, that 1 " Controversies are never determined ; for though they be amply proposed, they are scarce at all... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - 702 sider
...and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way. — FENELON. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain...vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: " Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee," which thou knowest to be a duty... | |
 | 1914 - 614 sider
...will not permit a more detailed account. "WHATSOEVER THY HAND FINDETH TO DO, DO IT WITH THY MIGHT" Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain...vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second... | |
 | Charles Platt - 1922 - 302 sider
...a "slave to duty" — the sense of duty is a part of ourselves; when we satisfy it we become free. "Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain...vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart. . . . 'Do the Duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a duty!... | |
 | Howard Vicenté Knox - 1928 - 264 sider
...vortices : only by a felt indubitable certainty of Experience does it find any centre to revolve round, and so fashion itself into a system. Most true is...Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by Action '." — THOMAS ( AHI•VI.I . in Sartor Resartus. SECTION I IN its own despite,1 the Deterministic... | |
 | 1902 - 874 sider
...a vortex amid vortices; only by a felt indubitable certainty of experience does it find any center to revolve around, and so fashion itself into a system....doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action. . . . "Do the duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a duty. Thy second duty will... | |
 | Anne Firor Scott - 1984 - 426 sider
...Experience, does it find any centre to revolve around, and so fashion itself into a system. Most true it is, as a wise man teaches us, that Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by Action." Sartor Resartus, p. 201. 16. See Jane Addams, "Tolstoy and Gandhi," Christian Century, 48 (Nov. 25,... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - 1991 - 350 sider
...Experience does it find any centre to revolve round, and so fashions itself into a System. Most true it is, as a wise man teaches us, that "Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by Action." (195-6) Action or conduct precedes conviction and the knowledge (or conviction of knowledge) conviction... | |
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On which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully and in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service, " Do the duty which lies nearest... 
