 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
 | John Abercrombie - 1833 - 370 páginas
...cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in tiine despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and... | |
 | James Jolly - 1833 - 170 páginas
...do not sometimes predominate, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. By degrees the reign of Fancy is 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... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1834 - 388 páginas
...cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in ti.ne despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 páginas
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness...; 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 460 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... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1835 - 296 páginas
...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 of truth. By degress the reign of fancy is confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1835 - 296 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 Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 páginas
...cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected ; the mind, in weariness...; 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1836 - 202 páginas
...intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favorite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever...the reign of fancy Is confirmed ; she grows first p h imperious, and in time despotic : then fictions begin to operate as;realities, faUe opinions fasten... | |
 | 1838 - 272 páginas
...cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness...; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, fal&o opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in... | |
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