 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 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...should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects. --' L The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce efought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained,...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 466 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 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... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part. " For this reason, these familiar histories may be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, M to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,...mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have wer real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1832 - 228 pages
...But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained,...not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects."— R. No. 4. It should have been, in the first of these extracts, " than that of gathering :" in the second,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part. For this reason, advantage which these fictions have over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not... | |
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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... 
