 | Alexander Bain - 1855 - 758 str.
...given by Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics, Book X.). It is summed up in these words : ' Pleasure is the reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion of a power, of whose energy we are conscious. Pain is a reflex of the overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power.' It is no part of my present... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 772 str.
...disagreeable ; and, in conformity to this doctrine, pleasure and pain may be thus defined : Pleasure is a reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion of a power, of whose energy we are conscious.1 Pain, a reflex of the overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power. I shall say a... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 752 str.
...is a reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion of a power, of whose energy we are conscious.1 Pain, a reflex of the overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power. I shall say a word in illustration of these definitions. Taking pleasure, — pleasure is defined to... | |
 | 1863 - 532 str.
...unharmonious relations, of " certain disagreements. Pleasure is a ' reflex of the spontaneous and unim' peded exertion of a power of whose ' energy we are conscious...overstrained or repressed ' exertion of such a power." — (Lecture* on Metaphysics, ii. p. 440.) It would be interesting, I think, to test .the value of... | |
 | Francis Edmund Anstie - 1864 - 564 str.
...pain, on the contrary, the effect of certain inharmonious relations, of certain disagreements. Pleasure is a reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion...overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power." The varieties of pain which have been already mentioned would appear to come under the * Lectures on... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 578 str.
...relations between them, not previously understood, which though not adequate to the formation of an universal theory of the phenomenon, afford a clearer...a power." By a "reflex" he has shortly before said thatf he means merely a " concomitant ;" but I think it will appear that he means at least an effect.... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1865 - 588 str.
...disagreeable, and, in conformity to this doctrine, pleasure and pain may be thus defined : — %i Pleasure is a reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion...overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power. Thedcfi- I shall say a word in illustration of these definipieasure tions. Taking pleasure, — pleasure... | |
 | 1867 - 592 str.
...agreements ; Pain the effect of certain inharmonious relations, certain disagreements. Pleasure is a result of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion of a power,...overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power." " Pain in neuralgia," says Romberg, " is the prayer of the nerve for healthy blood." Is not all pain... | |
 | Enaeas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 362 str.
...reflex of the spontaneous the follow-'. anc ^ unimpeded exertion of a power of whose t"rs chap ~ ener gy we are conscious: Pain a reflex of the overstrained or repressed exertion of such a power." In another passage he gives the same definition in other words : " Pleasure is nothing but the concomitant... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 664 str.
...afford a clearer insight into some of its forms and varieties. This merit must be allowed to Sir ~VV. Hamilton's theory, in common with several others which...power." By a " reflex " he has shortly before said thatf he means merely a " concomitant ;" but I think it will appear that he means at least an effect.... | |
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is a " reflex of the spontaneous and unimpeded exertion of " a power, of whose energy we are conscious. Pain, a " reflex of the overstrained or repressed exertion of such 
