| English essays - 1759 - 812 pages
...fomalimes predominate over hit reaion, wh« can regulate his attention wholly by hit will, and whofe ideas 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, •who can regulate his attention wholly b^ his will, and whofe 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 feu beyond the limits... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe 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 ifear beyond the limits... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whofe mind airy notions do pot fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear fear beyond the limits... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe 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... | |
| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...early as I383J4C, Lubec, in 1463 ; and at Dresden, in 1534. \ And are we not, at times, all visionary ? No man will be found, in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to roam beyond the limits of sober probability. He who once rejolvcs upon... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...fometimes predominate over his reafon, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...IMAGINATION. "DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous...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 - 1804 - 594 pages
...passions stand ready to receive it. ' , ' ' 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... | |
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