 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 - Σελίδα 153των Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 σελίδες
...all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. — George Eliot. pen to a man who is trying to escape tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. — Johnson. A vile... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 σελίδες
...all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire. — George FÀiot. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. — Johnson, A vile... | |
 | Samuel Jones Gee - 1915 - 428 σελίδες
...hegemonic power) be weakened, when phantoms appear, the patient believes in them, and delirium follows.1 1 'All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity ; but while this power is sucli as we control and repress, it is not visible to others, nor considered as any deprivation of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1923 - 176 σελίδες
...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...probability. All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity1, but while this power is such as we can control and repress it is not visible to others,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 256 σελίδες
...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...insanity ; but while this power is such as we can controul and repress, it is not visible to others, nor considered as any depravation of the mental... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 268 σελίδες
...human mind is in its right state, ^here is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly...probability. | All power of fancy over reason is a degree of v insanity^ but while this power is such as we can controul and repress, it is not visible to others,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 258 σελίδες
...human mind is in its right state. There is no man who^e imagination does _not_ sonifiHmes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly...hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All_gower of fancy over reason is a degree" of insanitvj but while this power is such as we can controul... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 286 σελίδες
...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...notions do •, not sometimes tyrannise, and force him to(]jQpe \ or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy over reason is a degree... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 260 σελίδες
...tyrannise, and force him to hope , or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. A rt/vw' • TAH power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity* but while this power is such as we can controul and repress, it is not visible to others, nor considered as any depravation of the mental... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - 264 σελίδες
...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 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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