 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, — , t.-J--- .V~- -I' ' '• ,~~'~' I ' f*> except for what is customary. '(Thus the mind - itself...for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought lof ; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only lamong things commonly don el -peculiarity of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1864 - 384 pages
...not mean that ' people ' choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination,...customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke ; . . . peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct are shunned equally with crimes. ... If ... persons... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 pages
...preference to what suits their own inclination. It doe* 36 not occur to them to have any inclina tion, except for what is customary Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke : even in what people do fo pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of ; they like in crowds ; they exercise choice... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1809 - 332 pages
...highest class of society down to the lowest, every one lives as under the eye of a dreaded censorship. It does not occur to them to have any inclination...is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds. Now, is this, or is it not, a desirable condition of human nature ? " But whence is the hope of freedom... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1871 - 296 pages
...highest class of society down to the lowest, every one lives as under the eye of a dreaded censorship. It does not occur to them to have any inclination...is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds. Now, is this, or is it not, a desirable condition of human nature ? " But whence is the hope of freedom... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1873 - 360 pages
...that made England what it has been, and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline/ ' The mind itself is bowed to the yoke ; even in what...they exercise choice only among things commonly done/ There is much more to the same purpose which I need not quote. It would be easy to show from other... | |
 | 1874 - 898 pages
...do not mean that they choose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own inclination ; it does not occur to them to have any inclination...customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke ; oven in what psople do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds;... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1878 - 98 pages
...they choose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own inclination. It doe* not occnr to them to have any inclination, except for what is...customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke : oven in what people do fo pleasure, conformity is the first thing p»casure, comuimuy is me nisi... | |
 | Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore, Mrs. Clara Jessup Moore - 1892 - 332 pages
...is worse still) " What is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine1 " It does not occur to them to have any inclination...except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bound to the yoke. Even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of. They... | |
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I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. 
