 Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavour of fortune, or the niggardly provision of a step-motherly nature, this will should wholly lack power to accomplish its purpose, if with its greatest efforts it should yet achieve nothing, and there...  Aberdeen University Studies - Page 1751918Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1917 - 456 pages
...attainment of some proposed end, but simply in virtue of its volition, that is, it is good in itself. . . . Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavour...should wholly lack power to accomplish its purpose, ... it would still shine like a jewel by its own light, as something which has its whole value in itself.'... | |
 | Walter Goodnow Everett - 1918 - 466 pages
...prescribed for it by the practical reason, it is good in itself, without reference to what it accomplishes. "Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavour...nothing, and there should remain only the good will (not, to be sure, a mere wish, but the summoning of all means in our power), then, like a jewel, it... | |
 | Herman Harrell Horne - 1918 - 324 pages
...little later occurs this picturesque passage: Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavor of fortune, or the niggardly provision of a stepmotherly...power to accomplish its purpose, if with its greatest effort It should yet achieve nothing, and there should remain only the good will (not, to be sure,... | |
 | Guy Cromwell Field - 1921 - 234 pages
...For that depends on circumstances outside ourselves, and we may be prevented, as he says, by " the special disfavour of fortune or the niggardly provision of a step-motherly nature." That, however, would not lessen our merit, which depends on our wishing and doing all we can to do... | |
 | John Waugh Scott - 1924 - 200 pages
...lies wholly in the purposing itself. If that be right, then it is a good will. "Even if it should so happen that owing to special disfavour of fortune,...nothing, and there should remain only the good will (not, to be sure, a mere wish, but the summoning of all means in our power), then, like a jewel, it... | |
 | Francis Joseph Hall, Frank H. Hallock - 1923 - 268 pages
...attainment of some proposed end, but simply in virtue of its volition, that is, it is good in itself. . . . Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavour...should wholly lack power to accomplish its purpose, ... it would still shine like a jewel by its own light, as something which has its whole value in itself."... | |
 | Everett Dean Martin - 1924 - 328 pages
...the volition. That is, it is good in itself. Even if it should happen that owing to special disfavor of fortune or the niggardly provision of a step-motherly...should wholly lack power to accomplish its purpose — Then, like a jewel, it would still shine by its own light. Its usefulness or fruitfulness can neither... | |
 | Herbert Martin - 1925 - 360 pages
...in the direction of effort when he says: "Even if it should happen that, owing to special disfavor of fortune, or the niggardly provision of a step-motherly...nothing, and there should remain only the good will (not, to be sure, a mere wish, but the summoning of all means in our power), then like a jewel, it... | |
 | Benjamin S. Llamzon - 1993 - 398 pages
...the will which is called character is not good. Even if it should happen that by a special disfavor of fortune, or the niggardly provision of a stepmotherly nature, this will should wholly lack the power to accomplish its purpose, still like a jewel it would shine by its own light." In Dewey... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - 1998 - 124 pages
...indeed, if you will, of the sum of all inclinations. Even if, by a special disfavor of fortune or by the niggardly provision of a stepmotherly nature, this will should wholly lack the capacity to carry out its purpose - if with its greatest efforts it should yet achieve nothing... | |
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