 | Ruth Morse - 1991 - 336 pages
...looking at the writing of lives. 3 LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognizing them as our own, or considering them as naturally incident... | |
 | Miguel Tamen - 1993 - 240 pages
...biography, on the one hand, and poetry and history, on the other: "Our passions are...more strongly moved in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognizing them as once our own" (ibid., p. 319). However, the... | |
 | Jennifer A. Herdt - 1997 - 322 pages
...points of view, which Johnson both recognizes and discounts. Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognizing them as once our own, or considering them as incident... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate . . . Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally... | |
 | Sarah MacKenzie Zimmerman - 1999 - 260 pages
...well told. The detail of personal experience is necessary, since "[o]ur passions" are "more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - 1996 - 416 pages
...(13 October 1750), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) tells us why: "Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally... | |
 | Olaudah Equiano - 2003 - 436 pages
...(13 October 1750), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) tells us why: Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 pages
...excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves. [2] Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - 2005 - 472 pages
...Rambler 60 (13 October 1750) Samuel Johnson tells us why: Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasures proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally... | |
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Our passions are therefore more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally incident to our state of life. 
