 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 - Pagina 2861850Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 288 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1856 - 588 pagina’s
...heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, which give direction to the character o! Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...for no other reason than because he knows he should i.ot : " — VoL I. p. 283. In his evident persuasion that this was an ordinary and universal experience,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 558 pagina’s
...the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Late, merely because we understand it to be such ? This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pagina’s
...of 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 1 This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow. It was this unfathomable longing... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pagina’s
...himself committing a vile silly action, for no other reason than becanse he Who ile or a I / shmiM / not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our bftst Iudgment, to violate that which is Law, merely becanse wo understand it to be such ? This spirit... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1884 - 454 pagina’s
...which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committino- a . . ° vile or a silly action for no other reason...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1884 - 600 pagina’s
...the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. "Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not ? Have we not a perpetual inclination,... | |
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