 | 1759 - 812 sider
...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 fuch as we can control!... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 sider
...will be found in whofe mind airy notions do pot fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear fear beyond the limits of fober probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity ; but while this power is fuch as we can control and reprefs, it is not vifible to others,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 sider
...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 of fober probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 sider
...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 of fober probability. All ~ i power of fancy ctvet_jeafon is a _degree.of jnfaaity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 sider
...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...probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity ; but while this this power is fuch as we can control and reprefs, it is not vifible to others,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 sider
...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,...probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity ; but while this power is fuch as we can control and reprefs, it is not vifible to others,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 426 sider
...over his reafon ; no man VOL. ii. B who who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command ; no man in...is a degree of INSANITY ; but while this power is filch -as we can controul and reprefs, it is not vifibie to others, or confidered as any proof of MENTAL... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 sider
...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,...probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity ; but while this power is fuch as we can control and reprefs, it is not vifible to others}... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 sider
...wholly by his will, and whofe ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whole mind airy notions do .not fometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear b«yond the limits of fober probability. All power of fancy over reafon is a degree of infanity ; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sider
...ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, 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... | |
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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,... 
