ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate;... The Rambler - Seite 381von Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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| 1750 - 228 Seiten
...for the happinefs or calamities of others, is produced by an act of the imagination, that realifcs the event however fictitious, or approximates it however...remote, by placing us for a time in the condition VoL. III. H of of him whole fortune we contemplate ; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 328 Seiten
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| Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 Seiten
...happmefs or calami• ties of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realifes the,event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, m the condition of him whofe fortune we contemplate; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 372 Seiten
...contain, Of vice and virtue more inftruftive rules, , Tlian all the fober fages of the fchools. AL L joy or forrow for the happinefs or calamities of others...approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, ia the condition of .him C 6 whofe. vV,fe fortune we contemplate; fo that we feel, v.hilc tie deception... | |
| 1785 - 596 Seiten
...calamities of others is .produced by an act of the imagination, that readies the event however ndlitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whofe fortune we contemplate; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatevtr motions would be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 Seiten
...works the beautiful and bafe contain, Of vice and virtue more inftructive rules, Than, all the fob :r fages of the fchools. FRANCIS. ALL joy or forrow for...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whofe fortune we contemplate; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever motions would be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 Seiten
...imagination, that realizes the event however ficYitious, or approximates it however rem'otq, by placirg us, for a time, in the condition of him whole fortune...would be excited by the fame good or evil happening tdourftlves. Our pa'ffions are therefore more ftrongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 340 Seiten
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| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 Seiten
...for the happinefs or calamities of others is produced by an ac't of the imagination, that realifesr- the event, however fictitious, or approximates it...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whofe fortune we contemplate ; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever motions would be... | |
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