10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREAT-HEARTEDNESS»
Discover the use of
great-heartedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
great-heartedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nourishing the Spirit: The Healing Emotions of Wonder, Joy, ...
Thomas Aquinas described the paradoxical link between humility and “doing
great things” in his distinction between the virtues of humility and magnanimity (
great-heartedness). “Humility restrains the appetite from aiming at great things ...
James D. Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton Whitehead
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Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics
5.1 I Nonetheless great-heartedness is an individual virtue over and above the
other virtues, so that we must also say that the person who possesses this virtue
is distinctively great-hearted. Some good things are honourable, while others are
...
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The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Prudence, then, and temperance <and justice> and courage <and great-
heartedness and strength of body and soul> are virtues; joy and good spirits and
confidence and wish and such things are not virtues. Of virtues, some are kinds of
...
Brad Inwood, Lloyd P. Gerson, 2008
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Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics
111.4.7 Similarly, both the glutton for undisciplined expenditure and the person
who keeps no accounts because he cannot endure the pain of doing so should
be classified as profligate. 111. 5.1 Concerning great-heartedness, one must ...
Aristotle, Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf, 2013
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The American First-class Book, Or Exercises in Reading and ...
... save some charges for food and clothing, nothing comparable to the
magnificence he had bestowed upon the world, paltry sums for which his great-
heartedness (the great-heartedness of an apostle : " Take no thought for food or
raiment !
Great-heartedness leads us to undertake great and arduous works in every kind
of Virtue without taking fright at their magnitude. As a Christian virtue it goes, of
course, side by side with humility: it is the greatness of heart of the man who says
...
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God, the Best, and Evil
The difference between Beryl and Alice is that Beryl rules out of further
consideration worlds that Alice is quite prepared to regard as living options,
because Beryl has a much higher standard than Alice of what is required by great
-heartedness, ...
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Hellenistic Philosophy: Introductory Readings
Prudence, then, and temperance and justice and courage are kinds of
knowledge of certain things and crafts; great-heartedness and strength of body
and soul are neither kinds of knowledge of certain things nor crafts. Analogously,
of bad ...
Brad Inwood, Lloyd P. Gerson, 1998
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The Yeast of Yerushalaim: A Devotional Bible Study on the ...
The latter can also mean great-heartedness, the willingness to go the extra mile
or to write off bad debt. Why should we be so generous? Because Christ will
return and judge us on that (Matt. 25). We need His great-heartedness (Matt. 5:7).
... audacity, audaciousness, temerity, rashness, recklessness; courage, bravery,
valor, valorousness, valiancy, val- iance, heroism, prowess, stout-heartedness,
lionheart- edness, iron-heartedness, great-heartedness, high- heartedness;
virility, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREAT-HEARTEDNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
great-heartedness is used in the context of the following news items.
A Christmas Carol, Arts Theatre
... relishing the language, the social indignation, the humour and the magnificent great-heartedness of the writer who hastened his own death ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 11»
Three Days In May, Trafalgar Studios, review
... man, his eloquence, and in the scene in which he stiffens Chamberlain's spine, his potent mixture of political cunning and great-heartedness. «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 11»
Anne Boleyn is the historians' favourite, but her cousin Katherine …
Anne herself, in her scaffold speech, was all great-heartedness. As Weir points out, she knew the rules. The defeated were meant to be ... «Catholic Herald Online, Mar 11»
