Appetites

Examples

• When the mind touches the body through the appetites, we acknowledge the responsibility of the one to the other. Plato. The Republic.
• It is from the principle of comparison that both these irregular appetites for evil arise. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Hitherto man has been living in a slum, amidst quarrels, revenges, vanities, shames and taints, hot desires, and urgent appetites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In some individuals, appetites naturally dominate; they are assigned to the laboring and trading class, which expresses and supplies human wants. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• From reason moreover proceeds the proper control of the lower elements of human nature--the appetites and the active, motor, impulses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The curates had good appetites, and though the beef was tough, they ate a great deal of it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When they were dressed, the three of them walked quickly back to breakfast, for the morning air had developed their appetites enormously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Boys have generally excellent appetites. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Which appetites do you mean? Plato. The Republic.
• The sheep and ox are deprived of all these advantages; but their appetites are moderate, and their food is of easy purchase. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Of this kind is the desire of punishment to our enemies, and of happiness to our friends; hunger, lust, and a few other bodily appetites. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• How could I gauge your appetites or number your band? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The senses are connected with the appetites, with wants and desires. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He wanted sex to revert to the level of the other appetites, to be regarded as a functional process, not as a fulfilment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I expected every moment that my master would accuse the _Yahoos_ of those unnatural appetites in both sexes, so common among us. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Others reveal, upon education, that over and above appetites, they have a generous, outgoing, assertively courageous disposition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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