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" 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... "
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... - Page 155
by Hugh Murray - 1805 - 174 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part, For For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Volume 1

1810 - 464 pages
...success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 394 pages
...success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part. For this reason, these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...that which is likely to operate so strongly, should Rot be mischje-vous or tincerjja^i in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over...
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Works, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice ia unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhibited...mischievous or uncertain in its effects'. The chief advantage which these fictions have over seal life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 pages
...success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best ex<. amples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly, should not be misIchievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life...
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The Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 374 pages
...be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhi- \ > bited; and that which is likely 'to operate so strongly,...mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...success, to regulate then- own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part. For this reason, these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater...mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not...
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A Grammar of the English Language: In a Series of Letters. Intended for the ...

William Cobbett - 1819 - 198 pages
...taken, that,' when the " choice is unrestrained, the best examples only " should be exhibited ; and thai which is likely to " operate so strongly, should not be mischievous " or uncertain in its effects." — R. No. 4. It should have been, in the first of these extracts, " than thai of gathering:" in the...
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