10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COVETIVENESS»
Discover the use of
covetiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
covetiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Antijacobin Review and True Churchman's Magazine
We distinguish a vagabond thief from a coiner of false money : the former has,
besides the organ of covetiveness, the organ of space large, and the organ of
cautiousness small ; the latter has that of constructivehess developed. We may
also ...
2
The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
The other faculties most relevant to criminology in Spurzheim's organology are
Amativeness, Combativeness, Covetiveness, and Secretiveness. (Anticipating
television's antipornography filters, he discreetly presents his discussion of ...
3
An Address on the Vice of Gambling, etc
In daring robbery, the chiefinstruments are Covetiveness and Combativeness;
and the same is true of what is called manly gambling. In neither ofthese modes
ofvice is it necessary for Secretiveness or Destructiveness to take a very
prominent ...
4
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Nankin. The beaver builds its hut, and birds their nests, because of this organ;
anil it is the cause of all constructing whatever. Organ of Covetiveness is the
propensity to appropriate, to have of one's own, and is situated more landward
than the ...
Tobias George Smollett, 1815
5
The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar ...
Was this act ascribable to the organ of“ colour," or that of “ covetiveness?” An ow
walked into a well-furnished parlour, and withdrew without doing further mischief
than ogling himself in the looking-glass. Were these “ stolen" looks occasioned ...
6
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
8, in Mr Combe's great work, is called Covetiveness ; and he observes, " that the
intention of nature in giving this faculty, is to inspire us with the desire of acquiring
; so that, in consequence of its activity, we may possess when the day of want ...
7
The Craniad: Or, Spurzheim Illustrated: A Poem in Two Parts
On the contrary, characters become impolite, disagreeable, immodest, partial,
vindictive, corrupt, or untmctable, if the superior sentiments be less active, while
self-esteem, covetiveness, and the propensities to conceal, to fight, and to
destroy, ...
Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, J. Gordon, 1817
8
An Address on the Vice of Gambling
In further specification, I shall now add, that they are all the immediate growth of
Covetiveness, Secreliveness, Destructive- ness and Combativeness,* the four
most dangerous of the organs — dangerous, I mean, when not held under due ...
9
The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar ...
Was this act ascribable to the organ of" colour,1' or that of " covetiveness?" An ox
walked into a well-furnished parlour, and withdrew without doing further mischief
than ogling himself in the looking-glass. Were these " stolen" looks occasioned ...
10
The Western Monthly Review
And from Covetiveness, ehealing, swindling, theft and robbery. Combinations of
these faculties produce, necessarily, modifications of crime. Destructiveness and
Covetiveness united, perpetrate robbery and murder; Destructiveness and ...
