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" For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great... "
Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 73
1823
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Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to ...

Caroline Gonda - 1996 - 316 pages
...fiction's 'Power of Example': a power which, Johnson suggested, needed careful management since it was 'so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will'. 102 Even in novels which have an acceptable, explicit...
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Realismustheorien in England (1692-1919)

Walter F. Greiner, Fritz Kemmler - 1997 - 282 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of 50 violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken,...
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Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684–1750

William B. Warner - 1998 - 346 pages
...identification that recent "familiar histories" such as Clarissa and Tom )ones induce in their readers: "if the power of example is so great, as to take possession...memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken that . . . the best examples only...
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The Young Philosopher

Charlotte Smith - 1798 - 448 pages
...Samuel Johnson, Rambler 4, 31 March 1750: "these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. [C]are ought to be taken that . . . the best examples only should be exhibited." 6. Magicians, sorcerers....
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Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820

Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...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,...
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Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach

Michael McKeon - 2000 - 972 pages
...pedagogic promise and a pedagogic danger: [T]hese familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power ot example is so great, as to take possession of the memor)' by a kind ot violence, and produce effects...
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The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel

Eve Tavor Bannet - 2000 - 324 pages
...be engaged in like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions." Sarah Fielding does not speak of individual adventurers journeying through the universal drama of the...
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Johnson, Writing, and Memory

Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
..."familiar histories," to be "of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and [to be able to] convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions" (my emphasis Rambler, 1n, 21-22). But this ideological power makes novels dangerous. Here Johnson considers...
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The New Media Reader

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort - 2003 - 872 pages
...engaged in the like part. For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. Quite parallel with this extension of the book page into the form of a talking picture of ordinary...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 pages
...more urgent. For Johnson in the Rambler, the modern romance or 'familiar history' was a form in which 'the power of example is so great, as to take possession...memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will', just as for Aaron Hill what made Pamela exemplary of...
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