The Life of Samuel JohnsonOlms, 1973 - 639 pages |
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... mind . These mental distempers we observe , were the offspring of his melancholic temperament , and were fostered by solitary contemplation , till they had laid fetters upon his imagination too strong for reason to break through . We ...
... mind . These mental distempers we observe , were the offspring of his melancholic temperament , and were fostered by solitary contemplation , till they had laid fetters upon his imagination too strong for reason to break through . We ...
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... mind are not at all times , and on all subjects , equally powerful . The mind , like the body , has its weak organs ; in other words , the impressions on some sub- jects are so deeply fixed , that the judgment is no longer able to guide ...
... mind are not at all times , and on all subjects , equally powerful . The mind , like the body , has its weak organs ; in other words , the impressions on some sub- jects are so deeply fixed , that the judgment is no longer able to guide ...
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... mind , ever apprehensive of suffering the most deplorable of all human privations , the loss of reason , was much disturbed by the intelligence he re- ceived of the dreadful malady of Collins , the poet . Dr Warton informed him that he ...
... mind , ever apprehensive of suffering the most deplorable of all human privations , the loss of reason , was much disturbed by the intelligence he re- ceived of the dreadful malady of Collins , the poet . Dr Warton informed him that he ...
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