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Individual liberty, legal, moral, and licentious; in which the political ... - Page 59
by George Vasey (miscellaneous writer.) - 1877 - 184 pages
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 64

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1868 - 648 pages
...general. And the world, to each individual, means the petty part of it with which he comes in contact. Even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is...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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 89

1866 - 924 pages
...does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus, the mind itself is bowed to the yoke ; even in what people do for...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...
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liberty

john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow : their human capacities are withered and starved : they become incapable of any strong wishes...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 115

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 pages
...station and circumstances superior to mine ?" Thus conformity is the first thing thought of ; people "like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow : their human capacities are withered and starved : they become incapable of any strong wishes...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...— , t.-J--- .V~- -I' ' '• ,~~'~' I ' f*> except for what is customary. '(Thus the mind - itself is bowed to the yoke : even in what people ',do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought lof ; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only lamong things commonly don el -peculiarity of...
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The Universal review, Volume 1

1859 - 662 pages
...do not ask, what would suit me ? but, what do people of my sort generally do ? " Even in what they do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of. They like in crowds." How perfectly true this is, the least attention to the run of popular amusements, will testify. Few...
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Bentley's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

1860 - 632 pages
...does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure,...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow; their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes...
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Bentley's quarterly review. [with variant title-leaf to vol. 1]., Volume 2

1860 - 634 pages
...does net occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for...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...
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c.]. Vol.5 ...

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, they have no nature to follow, their human capacities are withered and starved." Is such a state, he asks, desirable for a...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 pages
...does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow : their human capacities are withered and starved : they become incapable of any strong wishes...
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