 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,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 422by Samuel Johnson - 1823Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1759 - 812 pages
...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 - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 426 pages
...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 - English language - 1794 - 878 pages
...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 - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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, and force...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...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, and force...of 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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