 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 páginas
...judgment. " In time," says the great moralist, " when some particular train of ideas has fixed the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are...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... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 páginas
...sober judgment. "In time," says the great moralist, "when some particular train of ideas has fixed the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are...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... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1833 - 370 páginas
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...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... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1834 - 388 páginas
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...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 - 460 páginas
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are...confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 páginas
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | John Abercrombie - 1835 - 296 páginas
...and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...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 - 1835 - 296 páginas
...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 begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 páginas
...fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow. " In time, some particular train of ideas fixes the attention ; all other intellectual gratifications...confirmed ; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life... | |
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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... 
