 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...maladies of the mind freQuentj and how they were contracted. CHAP. XIX. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. "DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac,...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 - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...contracted. CHAP. XLIV. The dangerous prevalence of imagination. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlae," happen much more often than superficial observers...believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, DO human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...maladies of the mind frequent, and how they were contracted ? CHAP. XLIII. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. " DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac,...can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and vv;hose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1811 - 440 pages
...bleeds, he dies ; disease, and misery, and death, cover the land." " PeVhaps," says Dr. Tohnson, " if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind...does not sometimes predominate over his reason.'' We submit it to the decision of our readers, whether Dr. Parish wrote the eulogy on Professor Hubbard... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...«' CHAP. 44. The dangerous prevalence of Imagination. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered hnlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigourous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...maladies of the mind frequent, and how they were contracted ' CHAPTER XLIV. The dangerous Prevalence of Imagination. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac,...wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at bis command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...maladies of the mind frequent, and how they were contracted ? CHAPTER XLIV. The dangerous prevalence of imagination . DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac,...his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly bv his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No mau will be found in whose mind airy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...maladies of the mind frequent, and how they were contracted ? CHAP. XLIII. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac,...exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is nainan whose imagination doe* not sometimes pre- V dominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 64 pages
...maladies of the mind frequent, and how they were contracted t CHAP. XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac,...its right state. There is no man whose imagination decs not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Johnson - Literary Collections - 1825 - 508 pages
...maladies of the mind frequent, and how they were contracted. CHAP. XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. •"DISORDERS of intellect," answered...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... | |
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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... 
