 I have often observed that, on mimicking the looks and gestures of angry, or placid, or frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that passion whose appearance I endeavoured to imitate...  The Quarterly Journal of Speech - Page 191923Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...the dispositions and thoughts of people as effectually as if he had been changed into the very men. I have often observed, that on mimicking the looks and gestures of angry, or placid, Of frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that passion, whose appearance... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1764 - 458 pages
...had been changed into the very men. I have often obferved, that on mimicking the looks and geftures, of angry, or placid, or frighted, or , daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that paffion whofe appearance I endeavoured to imitate; nay I am convinced it is hard to avoid it; though... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...had been changed into the very men. I have often obferved, that on mimicking the looks and geftures of angry, or placid, or frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that paffion, whofe appearance I endeavoured to imitate; nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...had been changed into the very men. I have often obferved, that on mimicking the looks and geftures of angry, or placid, or frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that paffion, whofe appearance I endeavoured to imitate ; nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though... | |
 | Freeman of Dublin - Ireland - 1800 - 674 pages
...had been changed into the very men. I have often obferved, that on mimicking the looks and geftures of angry, or placid, or frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that paffion, whofe appearance I endeavoured to imitate ; nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 366 pages
...had been changed into the very men. I have often obferved, that on mimicking the looks and gcftur.es of angry, or placid, or frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that pa'ffioh, whofe appearance I endeavoured to imitate ; nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 366 pages
...had been changed into the very men. I have often obferved, that on mimicking the looks and geftures of angry, or placid, or frighted, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that paffion, whofe appearance I endeavoured to imitate ; nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though... | |
 | Johann Caspar Lavater - Facial expression - 1804 - 422 pages
...the dispositions and thoughts of people as effectually as if he had been changed into the very men. I have often observed that, on mimicking the looks...my mind turned to that passion whose appearance I endeavoured to imitate : nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though one strove to separate... | |
 | Thomas Gilliland - Drama - 1804 - 160 pages
...man.—I have often observed, that in mimicking the looks and gestures of angry, or placid, or frightened, or daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind turned to that passion whose appearance I endeavoured to imitate ,• nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it; though one strive to separate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...the dispositions and thoughts of people as effectually as if he had been changed into the very men. I have often observed, that on mimicking the looks...my mind turned to that passion, whose appearance I endeavoured to imitate ; nay, I am convinced it is hard to avoid it, though one strove to separate... | |
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