 | Christopher Flint - 2002 - 416 Seiten
...libidinous urges he may ordinarily have felt. After setting his house in order he explains: I was remov'd from all the Wickedness of the World here. I had neither...of enjoying: I was Lord of the whole Manor; or if I pleas'd, I might call my self King, or Emperor over the whole Country which I had Possession of. There... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1998 - 356 Seiten
...Father Abraham to Dives, Between me and thee is a great Guiph fix1 d.1 In the first Place, I was remov'd from all the Wickedness of the World here. I had neither...was now capable of enjoying: I was Lord of the whole Mannor; or if I pleas'd, I might call my self King, or Emperor over the whole Country which I had Possession... | |
 | Helene Moglen - 2001 - 238 Seiten
...inevitably "for Things which I had not" (129) — to be irrelevant to life in the "kingdom" of his island: "I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying: I was Lord of the whole Mannor; or if I pleas'd, I might call my self King, or Emperor over the whole Country which I had P0ssession... | |
 | Jonathan Lamb - 2001 - 358 Seiten
...satisfaction, everything with nothing added. Robinson Crusoe says of his life in a state of nature, "I had nothing to covet, for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying" (Defoe 1972b, 128). Similarly, Tacitus said of the ancient German tribes, "Against the malignity of... | |
 | Julia V. Douthwaite - 2002 - 330 Seiten
...of his fourth year of isolation: "by a constant study and serious application of the word of God ... I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life" (1 39, emphasis in original). His womanless condition has troubled readers from Ian Watt, who remarked... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 2003 - 292 Seiten
...of the world here: I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. M I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now...of enjoying: I was lord of the whole manor; or if I pleas'd, I might call my self king, or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of. There... | |
 | David F. Ruccio, Jack Amariglio - 2003 - 428 Seiten
...obtain. For example: "In the first place, I was removed from all the wickedness of the world, here. / had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. 1 had nothing to covet; for I had all that 1 was now capable of enjoying; 1 was lord of the whole manor;... | |
 | Simona Corso - 2004 - 205 Seiten
...Thing remote, which I had nothing to do with, no Expectation from, and indeed no Desires about [...]. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying: I was Lord of thè whole Manor; or if I pleas'd, I might call my self King, or Emperor over thè whole Country which... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 Seiten
...not by altering his acquisitive, antisocial motives but by removing him from their register, society: "I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying: I was Lord of the whole Manner; or if I pleas'd, I might call my self King, or Emperor over the whole Country which I had Possession... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1925 - 336 Seiten
...it ; and well might I say, as Father Abraham to Dives, Between me and thee is a great Gulph fixed*. In the first Place, I was removed from all the Wickedness...of the Flesh, the Lust of the Eye, or the Pride of Life2. I had nothing to covet ; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoymg : I was Lord of the... | |
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In the first place, I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. 
