 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 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 Hynes - 1963 - 344 pages
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 | Paul Kent Alkon - 1967 - 240 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 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, tho' not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1973 - 492 pages
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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... 
