 In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood, whenever she is offended...  The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral, & Philosophical ... - Página 7451822Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Solomon Piggott - 1824 - 422 páginas
...leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the delicious falsehood whenever it is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees...Fancy is confirmed. She grows first imperious, and then despotic. These fictions begin to operate as realities ; false opinions fasten upon the mind ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 páginas
...cannot bestow. " lu time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotick. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 páginas
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness...degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows fir§t imperious, and in time despotick* Then fictions begin'to operate as realities, false opinions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 páginas
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By e See TraitS Medico-philosophique sur 1'Alienalion Menta'e, par Pinel. Dr. Willis defined, in remarkable... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Johnson - 1825 - 508 páginas
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By « " See Trait6 Medico-philosophique sur 1'Alit-nation MenUle, par Pinel. Dr. U'illis defined, in remarkable... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 páginas
...cannot bestow. « " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By r Sc« TraitS Medico-philosophique sur 1' Alienation Mentale, par Pinel. Dr. Willis defined, in remarkable... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1830 - 416 páginas
...cannot bestow. In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1832 - 392 páginas
...cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 páginas
...great moralist, " when some particular train of ideas has fixed the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness...confirmed. She grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fiction begins to operate as reality, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 páginas
...great moralist, "when some particular train of ideas has fixed the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness...confirmed. She grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fiction begins to operate as reality, false opinions fasten on the mind, and life passes in dreams... | |
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