 But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should...  The Rambler - Page 19edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 pages
...fhould not be mifchievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which thefe fictions havo over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to fele& objects, and to cull from die mafs of mankind, thofe individuals upon which the attention ought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1751 - 228 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...fo flrongly, fhould not be mifchievous or uncertain in its effects. THE chief advantage which thefe fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, tho' not to invent, yet to fclect objects, and to cull from the mafs of mankind, thofe individuals... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 302 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 300 pages
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 | 1785 - 596 pages
...fo ftronglv, (hould not be mifcHievous or uncertain in it's efieels. The chief advantage which thcfe fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to feleft objecb, and to cxiH from tne mais of mankind thofe individuals upon which the attention ought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...fo ftrongly, fhould not be mifehievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which thefe fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to felect objects, and to cull from the mafs of mankind, thofe individuals upon which the attention ought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...fo ftrongly, fhould not be miichievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which thefe fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to felect objects, and to . cull from the mafs of mankind, thofe individuals upon which the attention... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 pages
...ftron'-Чу, ihould not be " mifchievous or uncertain in its effects." — The chief advantage, which thofe fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to " felect" objects, and to cuil from the mafs of mankind, " thofe individuals upon whom the attention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...fo ftrongly, fhould not be mifchievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which thefe fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to felect objects, and to cull from the mafs of mankind, thofe individuals upon which the attention ought... | |
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