 DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate...  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Pàgina 162per Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1759 - 812 pàgines
...fomalimes predominate over hit reaion, wh« can regulate his attention wholly by hit will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe nrind airy notions do not fomeiiroes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the. limits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pàgines
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or ifear beyond the limits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pàgines
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, •who can regulate his attention wholly b^ his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear feu beyond the limits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pàgines
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do pot fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear fear beyond the limits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pàgines
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fome* times tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pàgines
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 pàgines
...early as I383J4C, Lubec, in 1463 ; and at Dresden, in 1534. \ And are we not, at times, all visionary ? No man will be found, in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to roam beyond the limits of sober probability. He who once rejolvcs upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 pàgines
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pàgines
...passions stand ready to receive it. ' , ' ' Ibid. vol. 3, p. i, FOLLY. No man will be found in who^e mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and...hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. Prince of Abyflima, p. 259. The folly which is adapted to persons and times, has its propriety, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pàgines
...human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will.come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise,... | |
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