 ... all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors,...  The Rambler. ... - Page 30by Samuel Johnson - 1752Full view - About this book
 | 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 - 664 pages
...to himfelf; the virtues and crimes were equally be-- yond his fphere of activity ; and he Î-L mufed himfelf with heroes and with traitors, deliverers...and perfecutors, as with beings of another fpecies, whofè actions were regulated upon motives of tbcir own, and who had neither, faults nor excellencies... | |
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