 But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only...  The British Essayists: Rambler - Page 17by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as over real life is, that their authors are at liberty, though not to invent, yet to select objects,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...virtue with more efficacy than f axioms and definitions. But if the power of exf ample is so great, as to take possession of the \ memory by a kind of violence, and produce efI fects almost without the intervention of the will, | care ought to be taken, that, when the choice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as ?: am~ wX W= ,8 Ry8 yA p/{ S E i 6 Nv! ... Qΐ ͨ ˥u hI Pِ Y4|+ C C ! ! G Z d@ h Ca =:ZL core ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhibited... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1842 - 248 pages
...But if the power of example is so great as to take " possession of the memory by a kind of violence, care " ought to be taken that, when the choice is...strongly should not be " mischievous or uncertain it its effects." — R. No. 4. It should have been, in the first of these extracts, " than that of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...virtue with more eliieacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,...taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the Ъез| examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly, should... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,...taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained, the beat examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so Btrongly, should not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great, as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,...produce effects almost without the intervention of tlic will, care ought to be taken, that, when the clioicn is unrestrained, the best examples only eliould... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,...should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects. 1bid Good Humour. Surely nothing can be more unreasonable than to lose the will to please, when we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions. But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence,...should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects. jtM Geod Humour. Surely nothing can be more unreasonable than to lose the will to please, when we are... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1866 - 172 pages
...But, if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, care ought to be taken, that, when the choice is unrestrained,...should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects." — R. No. 4. It should have been, in the first of these extracts, " than that of gathering:" in the... | |
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