 I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitement; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent; the state, I should think, in...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 6671873Full view - About this book
 | Bruce Mazlish - History - 1988 - 524 pages
...deaf pillows will discharge their secrets." Mill describes his state, as we have seen, as like that "in which converts to Methodism usually are, when smitten by their first conviction of sin" (interestingly, this is not in the original draft, ca. 18531856, but was presumably added in either... | |
 | W. W. Rostow - Business & Economics - 1992 - 733 pages
...or, as some have argued, a quite rational but transient reaction to the gloom of a British winter:15 I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody...liable to; unsusceptible to enjoyment or pleasurable excitment; one of those moods when what is pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent;... | |
 | Nicholas Rescher - Philosophy - 1990 - 224 pages
...in this regard. In a striking passage in his Autobiography he wrote: It was in the autumn of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody is occasionally liable to. ... In this frame of mind, it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that... | |
 | Robert Edgar Carter - Philosophy - 1992 - 244 pages
...Stuart Mill, who, at the age of nineteen, in 1826, feared the existential vacuum that overwhelmed him: I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody...pleasure at other times, becomes insipid or indifferent ... In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all... | |
 | Thomas L. Haskell, Richard F. Teichgraeber, III - Business & Economics - 1996 - 564 pages
...existence. But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream. It was in the summer of 1826. I was in a dull state of nerves, such as everybody...are, when smitten by their first "conviction of sin." Mill was keenly aware that his experience, although on his view wholly secular, conformed rather closely... | |
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