 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 over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at...  Rasselas: A Tale - Sivu 132tekijä(t) Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 155 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1759 - 812 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 - 162 sivua
...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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 sivua
...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... | |
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