 ... among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his...  The Rambler - Page 22by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is leveled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself" (Rambler 4, in, 11). What Johnson wants is writings which are not "safe" or remote from daily... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of... | |
 | Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort - 2003 - 872 pages
...with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own,...had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself. But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of... | |
 | 1750 - 666 pages
...regulated upon motives of tbcir own, and who had neither, faults nor excellencies in common, with himielft But when an adventurer is levelled, with the reft of the world, and acts iff fuch fcenes of the univerfal drama a may be the lot of any other man, young fpcctators fix tbcir.... | |
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