...the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...for no other reason than because he knows he should noi. Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which...

...repetition: words BROTES i S (erotema): a rhetorical question implying strong affirmation or denial: Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...for no other reason than because he knows he should noti Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which...

...soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart. . . . 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,...

..."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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...for no other reason than because he knows he should i.oi ! " — Vol. L p. 283. In his evident persuasion that this was an ordinary and universal experience,...

...ausgerichtet sein muß: "perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart . . . Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing...for no other reason than because he knows he should «o/?"4 Wie klassisch (im Sinne Goethes und Schillers) mutet dagegen Melvilles Bekenntnis zum "idealen"...