 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...contracted? CHAP. XLIV. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. " DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power . of fancy... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...CHAPTER XLIV. The dangerous Prevalence of Imagination. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers...wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at bis command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannise, and force... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...contracted ? CHAP. XL1V, THE HANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. " DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...CHAP. XLIII. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OP IMAGINATION. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
 | 1820 - 286 pages
...contracted ? CHAPTER XLIV. The dangerous prevalence of imagination. DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...come and go at his command. No man will be found in who.so mind <iiry notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear Beyond the limits... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...contracted ? CHAPTER XLIV. The dangerous prevalence of imagination . DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly bv his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No mau will be found in whose mind airy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...CHAP. XLIII. THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers...exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is nainan whose imagination doe* not sometimes pre- V dominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pages
...maladies of the mind frequent, and how they were contracted? — Disorders of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers...found, in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope, or fear, beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1823 - 816 pages
...of imagination. I beg leave to introduce it : — " Disorders of intellect," says this great writer, "happen much more often than superficial observers...found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...? CHAP. XLIV. The dangerout prevalence of Imagination. " DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " ntlemen, I kiss your hands, — I protest no company...heartily. I said I had left six places, and I was upon tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy... | |
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DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, "happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate... 
