 ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate;...  The Rambler - Page 381by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate j. so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would.be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 352 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a lime, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...the happiness or calami**• ties of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 pages
...for the happiness or calami-*^ ties of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...or calamities of" o th ersTs "pi ro"3uce3""DTari "acE oTffieTmagmaTion" , that realizes "thtTevent however fictitious, or approximates it however remote,...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be... | |
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