 All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes 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, by S. Johnson - Page 52edited by - 1812Full view - About this book
 | 1750 - 228 pages
...excited by the fame good or evil happening to ourfelves. ' Our paffions are therefore more ftrongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleafures propofed to- our minds, by recognifing them as once our own, or confidering them as naturally... | |
 | M. S. - 1780 - 232 pages
...— or in the words of an elegant periodical writer, . * " Our paQions are therefore more " ftrongly moved, in proportion as we " can more readily adopt the pains or « pleafure propofed to our minds, b'y reJ* cognifing them at once our own, o^ ** confidcring them... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...be excited by the fame good or evil happening to ourfelves. Our paffions are therefore more ftrongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleafure propoled to our minds, by recogniiingthem as once our own, or conlidering them as naturally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787
...be excited by the fame good or evil happening to ourfelves. Our paflions afe therefore more ftrongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleafure propofed to our minds, by recogniHng them as once our own, or confidering them as naturally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...be excited by the fame good or evil happening to ourfelves. Our paflions are therefore more ftrongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleafure propofed to our minds, by recognifing them as once our own, or confidering them as naturally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 460 pages
...be excited by the fame good or evil happening to ourfelves. Our paffions are therefore more ftrongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleafure propofed to our minds, by recognifing them as once our own, or confidering them as naturally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...excited by the fame good or evil happening to ourfelves. Our pa (fions are therefore more ftrongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleafure propofed to our minds, by recognifing them as once our own, or confidering them as naturally... | |
 | 1806 - 346 pages
...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;...moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pain* er pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as... | |
 | 1808 - 512 pages
...and conditions with ourselves ; whose circumstances make ' us feel for the time the emotions which would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves ; whose attainments while they resulted from the divine blessing, appear not to have been preternatural,... | |
 | 1808 - 602 pages
...relations and conditions with ourselves ; whose circumstances make us feel for the time the emotions which would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves ; whose attainments, while they resulted from the divine blessing, appear not to have been preternatural,... | |
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