 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...  Our Social Heritage - Page 158by Graham Wallas - 1921 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pages
...things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until, by dint of not 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 pages
...by dint of not following their own nature, thoy have no nature to follow; their human capacities ate withered and starved ; they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are, generally, without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. " To... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 pages
...things commonly done : peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until by dint of not following their own nature, they...incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own." Accordingly,... | |
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...things commonly done : peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until by dint of not following their own nature, they...incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...commonly don el -peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are 'shunned equally with crimes : until by dint of not following their own nature, they...incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, — *"/ and are generally without either opinions or feel\ ings of home growth, or properly their ownTv... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes; until by dint of not following their own nature, they...incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...things commonly done : peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shmmed equally with crimes ; until by dint of not following their own nature, they...incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is... | |
 | 1860 - 446 pages
...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 pages
...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 of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without any opinions or feelings of home growth. Human nature being radically corrupt... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 pages
...things commonly done : peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until by dint of not following their own nature, they...incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is... | |
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