 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 páginas
...adorning it with new and apt metaphors, but also by the rarity of their invention. But, without steadiness and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness ; such as they have that, entering into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose by every... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 páginas
...one kind of madness ; such as they have, that entering into any discourse, are snatched Discretion- from their purpose, by every thing that comes in their thought, into so many, and so long digressions, and parentheses, that they utterly lose themselves : which kind of folly, I know no particular name... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 428 páginas
...and persons ; but judgment and discretion is commended for itself without fancy : without steadiness and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness, such as they have who lose themselves in long digressions and parentheses. If the defect of... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 páginas
...it with new and apt metaphors; but also, by the rarity of their invention. But without steadiness, and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness ; such as they have, that entering into any~cGscourse, are snatched Discretion, from their... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 744 páginas
...it with new and apt metaphors; but also, by the rarity of their invention. But without steadiness, and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness ; such as they have, that entering into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose, by... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1850 - 770 páginas
...they are true, when they know at most but that they think so." — Ibid. 31. " WITHOUT steadiness, and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness ; such as they have, that, entering into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose by... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1851 - 768 páginas
...they are true, when they know at most but that they think «>."— Ibid. 31. " WITHOUT steadiness, and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness ; such as they have, that, entering into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose by... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - 620 páginas
...and persons; but judgment and discretion is commended for itself without fancy : without steadiness and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness, such as they have who lose themselves in long digressions and parentheses. If the defect of... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1889 - 932 páginas
...it with new and apt metaphors ; but also, by the rarity of their invention. But without steadiness, and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness ; such as they have, that entering into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose by everything... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1898 - 408 páginas
...such as they have, that entering into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose, by everything that comes in their thought, into so many, and so long digressions, and parentheses, that they utterly lose themselves : which kind of folly, I know no particular name... | |
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But without Steddinesse, and Direction to some End, a great Fancy is one kind of Madnesse; such as they have, that entring into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose, by every thing that comes in their thought, into so many, and so long digressions,... 
