 ... they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but, having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles, for by the violence of their imaginations,...  London Magazine Enlarged and Improved - Page 2191738Full view - About this book
 | Charles Palmer (Deputy Serjeant of the House of Commons.) - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1748 - 342 pages
...wrongly, they miftake them for truths, and they err, as men do that argue right from wrong principles ; for by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make a right deduction from them. Thus you mall find a diffracted man, fancying himfelf a king, with a right... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1782 - 728 pages
...wrongly, they miftake them for truths; and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. For by the violence of their imaginations, having taken their fancies for realities, they make right deduftions fiom them. Thus you fhall find a diftra&ed man fancying himfelf a king, with a right inference,... | |
 | Leonard Shelford - Costs (Law) - 1833 - 964 pages
...wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. For, by the violence of their imaginations, having...for realities, they make right deductions from them. " In confirmation of this doctrine it is found, that different faculties fail in different persons.... | |
 | Maryland. High Court of Chancery, Theodorick Bland - Equity - 1836 - 730 pages
...wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do who argue right from wrong principles. For, by the violence of .their imaginations, having...for realities, they make right deductions from them. In short, madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right... | |
 | JOHN MURRAY - 1852 - 786 pages
...wrongly, they mistake them for truths; and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. For, by the violence of their imaginations having...for realities, they make right deductions from them. Thus.you shall find a distracted man, fancying himself a king, with a right inference require suitable... | |
 | Edward Vaughan Williams - Executors and administrators - 1856 - 966 pages
...Understanding : ' Madmen having joined together some ideas very wrongly, mistake them for truths. — By the violence of their imaginations, having taken...realities, they make right deductions from them.' — Hence it comes to pass, that a man, who is of a right understanding in all other things, may, in... | |
 | Richard Thomas Walkem - Executors and examinators - 1873 - 580 pages
...standing' : ' Madmen, having joined together some ideas Sect III. very wrongly, mistake them for truths. By the violence of their imaginations, having taken...for realities, they make right deductions from them. Hence it comes to pass that a man who is of a right understanding in all other things, may, in one... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - 1894 - 800 pages
...wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles, for by the violence of their imaginations, having...for realities, they make right deductions from them. Tims you shall find a distracted man fancying himself a king, with a right inference requiring suitable... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1882 - 748 pages
...wrongly, they mistake them for truths and they err as men do who argue right from wrong principles ; for by the violence of their imaginations — having taken their fancies for realties — they make right deductions from them. Thus you shall find a distracted man fancying himself... | |
 | M. Shepherd, O. L. Zangwill - Medical - 1983 - 324 pages
...wrongly, they mistake them for truths; and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles. For by the violence of their imaginations, having...for realities, they make right deductions from them' (Locke, 1890, 1, 209; Tuveson, 1960). Significantly, it was primarily to explain lunacy that Locke... | |
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