 | 1759 - 812 Seiten
...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 of fober probability. All pow«r of fancy over roaJbn is a Jcpee of infanity j but while this power is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 Seiten
...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 of fober probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity ; but while this this power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 Seiten
...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 of fober probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity ; but while this power is... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 540 Seiten
...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 ideal discoveries, seldom searches... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 878 Seiten
...and whofe ideas will come and go at his command ; no man in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of fober probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of INSANITY ; but while this power is... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 426 Seiten
...and whofe ideas will come and go at his command ; no man in whofe mind airy notions do not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of fober probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of INSANITY ; but while this power is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 Seiten
...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 of fober probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity ; but while this power is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 Seiten
...Ibid. vol. 3, p. i, FOLLY. No man will be found in who^e mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to 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 Seiten
...and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.—All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; but while this power is such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 Seiten
...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...insanity ; but while this power is such as we can control and repress, it is not visible to others, nor considered as any depravation of the mental faculties... | |
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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 tyrannize,... 
