 Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart: one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times,...  The American Whig Review - Seite 2861850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Icon Reference - 2006 - 292 Seiten
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 | Ross Posnock, Associate Professor of English Ross Posnock - 2006 - 334 Seiten
..."spirit of perverseness," of which philosophy "takes no account," and poses the rhetorical question, "have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth...Law, merely because we understand it to be such?" Poe's supremely rational disquisitions on man's irreducible perversity project an uncanny irony designed... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2007 - 256 Seiten
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 | Ronald Paulson - 2007 - 423 Seiten
...direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows...is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow. It was this unfathomable longing of... | |
 | Joel Rose - 2007 - 492 Seiten
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 | N. W. Erickson - 2007 - 253 Seiten
...the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow. It was this unfathomable longing of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1927 - 506 Seiten
...the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow. It was this unfathomable longing of... | |
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