 | John Brewer, Roy Porter - 1993 - 660 pàgines
...of British Studies, xxvii (J;m. 1988), 23. Consumption: disease of the consumer society? Roy Porttr Consumption may be regarded as a vast pit-fall, situated on the high road oflife, which we have not sense enough of our common interest to agree to fill up, or fence round.... | |
 | Peter N. Stearns - 2001 - 164 pàgines
...consumption. Some writers deliberately punned on the double meaning as a way of attacking consumerism: "Consumption may be regarded as a vast pit-fall, situated...common interest to agree to fill up, or fence round." A second way to attack consumerism through illness was to focus on diseases of the stomach, or appetite,... | |
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Consumption may be regarded as a vast pit-fall, situated on the high road of life, which we have no sense enough of our common interest to agree to fill up, or fence round, heedless fathers and mothers are for ever guiding their sons and daughters directly... 