Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned... On Liberty - Página 36por John Stuart Mill - 1878 - 68 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 páginas
...comes in contact. Even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow. "Hence, " in this age the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom,... | |
| 1866 - 924 páginas
...bowed to the yoke ; even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds ; they exercise choice only among things...until, by dint of not following their own nature, thoy have no nature to follow; their human capacities ate withered and starved ; they become incapable... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 páginas
...station and circumstances superior to mine ?" Thus conformity is the first thing thought of ; people "like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own." Accordingly, the Essayist's definition of persons of genius is, that they are, ex vi termini, more... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 páginas
...first thing thought lof ; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only lamong things commonly don el -peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are...— *"/ and are generally without either opinions or feel\ ings of home growth, or properly their ownTv Now 1 ° is this, or is it not, the desirable condition... | |
| 1860 - 446 páginas
...threatens to become the almost universal type of character ; even in amusements men " like in crowds ;" "until, by dint of not following their own nature,...their human capacities are withered and starved." Is such a state, he asks, desirable for a human being? It is so according to the Calvinistic theory,... | |
| Alexander Alison - 1860 - 476 páginas
...equally with crimes, until by dint of changing their own nature they have no nature to follow. Thus man's capacities are withered and starved, they become incapable...wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without any opinions or feelings of home growth. Human nature being radically corrupt there is no redemption... | |
| 1860 - 634 páginas
...bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds: they exercise choice only among things...peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shmmed equally with crimes ; until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 páginas
...to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of ; they like in crowds ; they exercise choice only among things...peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned "7 equally with crimes : until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow... | |
| 1865 - 590 páginas
...threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency of personal impulses and preferences. human capacities are withered and starved ; they become...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. "To give any fair play to the nature of each, it is essential that different persons should be allowed... | |
| Elizabeth C. T. Carne - 1868 - 204 páginas
...bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of. They like in crowds ; they exercise choice only among things...conduct, are shunned equally with crimes ; until, hy dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow."* There is, however, this... | |
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