... for a propensity which, although obviously existing as a radical, primitive, irreducible sentiment, has been equally overlooked by all the moralists ...
... It cannot be denied that phrenology and, in great measure, all metaphysicianism have been concocted a priori. The intellectual or logical man, rather ...
... of their predecessors: deducing and establishing every thing from the preconceived destiny of man, and upon the ground of the objects of his Creator. It ...
... creation? Induction, a posteriori, would have brought phrenology to admit, as an innate and primitive principle of human action, a paradoxical something, ...
... terms, we may so far modify the proposition as to say, that through its promptings we act, for the reason that we should not. In theory, no reason can ...
... antagonistical sentiment exists. An appeal to one's own heart is, after all, the best reply to the sophistry just noticed. No one who trustingly ...
... is only with difficulty that he restrains himself from giving it flow he dreads and deprecates the anger of him whom he addresses yet, the thought strikes ...
... using the word with no comprehension of the principle. To-morrow arrives, and with it a more impatient anxiety to do our duty, but with this very ...
... labor now. Alas, it is too late! We stand upon the brink of a precipice. We peer into the abyss-we grow sick and dizzy. Our first impulse is to shrink ...
... or any demon of a tale, and yet it is but a thought, although a fearful one, and one which chills the very marrow of our bones with the fierceness ...
... if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed. Examine these similar actions as we will, ...
... some measure I may answer your question, that I may explain to you why I am here, that I may assign to you something that shall have at least the faint ...
... that any deed could have been wrought with a more thorough deliberation. For weeks, for months, I pondered upon the means of the murder. I rejected a ...
... It is inconceivable how rich a sentiment of satisfaction arose in my bosom as I reflected upon my absolute security. For a very long period of time I ...
... I arrested myself in the act of murmuring, half aloud, these customary syllables. In a fit of petulance, I remodelled them thus I am safe-I am safe-yes-if ...
... these fits of perversity, (whose nature I have been at some trouble to explain), and I remembered well that in no instance I had successfully resisted ...
... I felt then the consummation of my fate. Could I have torn out my tongue, I would have done it, but a rough voice resounded in my ears-a rougher grasp ...
... necessary for the fullest judicial conviction, I fell prostrate in a swoon. But why shall I say more? To-day I wear these chains, and am here! To-morrow ...
... of the Odd Edgar Allan Poe Some Words with a Mummy Edgar Allan Poe Berenice Edgar Allan Poe The Mystery of Marie Rog^et Edgar Allan Poe The Sphinx Edgar ...
... (1841) The Cask of Amontillado (1846) The Masque of the Red Death (1842) The Black Cat (1842) The Purloined Letter (1844) Note: This book is provided ...