 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...ample is so great, as to take possession of the \ memory by a kind of violence, and produce efI fects almost without the intervention of the will, | care...' exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate BO > strongly, should not bo mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, core ought 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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1842 - 248 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...strongly should not be " mischievous or uncertain it its effects." — R. No. 4. It should have been, in the first of these extracts, " than that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the Ъез| examples only should be exhibited ; and that which...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 - 1843 - 624 pages
...the intervention of the will, Care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the beat examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so Btrongly, should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...will, care ought to be taken, that, when the clioicn is unrestrained, the best examples only eliould be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate...mischievous or uncertain in its effects. The chief advantage which these fictions have over real life i*, that their authors are at liberty, though not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...nature. Rambler, vol. 1. History. Those familiar histories, which draw the portraits of living manners, may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities...should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects. 1bid Good Humour. Surely nothing can be more unreasonable than to lose the will to please, when we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...nature. Rambler, yoL 1. History. Those familiar histories, which draw the portraits of living manners, may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities...should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects. jtM Geod Humour. Surely nothing can be more unreasonable than to lose the will to please, when we are... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1866 - 172 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,...should 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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1870 - 230 pages
...if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, eare ought to be taken, that, -when the choice is unrestrained,...should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects." — E. No. 4. It should have been, in the first of these extracts, than that of gathering : in the... | |
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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... 
