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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides ... - Page 456
by James Boswell - 1831
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 548 pages
...rolling between me and Strcatham. The nse of travelling is to regnlate imagination by. reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Here are monntains which I shonld once have climbed, bnt to climb steeps is now very laborions, and to descend...
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Lives of eminent persons

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 614 pages
...rolling between me and Streatham. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them...now very laborious, and to descend them dangerous; ami I am now content with knowing, that by scrambling up a rock, I shall only see other rocks, and...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Essay on the life and genius of Dr ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...rolling between me and Streatham. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them...very laborious, and to descend them, dangerous; and I ;un now content with knowing, that, by scrambling up a rock, I shall only see other rocks, and a wider...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pages
...•;• •!• i .,, -)v»w :»-w " The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, aju] instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they art-. Here are mountains which I should once have climbed ; but to climb steeps is now very laborious,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the ..., Volume 9

James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 155. Principles. Principles can only be strong by the strength of understanding, or the cogency of...
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Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].

John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 155. Principles. Principles can only be strong by the strength of understanding, or the cogency of...
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Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ...

John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pages
...conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 155. Principles. Principles can only be strong by the strength of understanding, or the cogency of...
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Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ...

John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pages
...conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 155. Principles. Principles can only be strong by the strength of understanding, or the cogency of...
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Results of Reading

James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...delicat est de faire celui d'autrui.* The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. * The merit of Shakspeare is such as the ignorant can take in, and the learned add nothing to. 6 Discretion...
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Old Wine in New Bottles; Or, Spare Hours of a Student in Paris

Augustus Kinsley Gardner - 1849 - 342 pages
...OR. BY AUGUSTUS KINSLEY GARDNER, MD The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality; and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. JOHNSON. The moment that you anticipate your pen in forming a sentence, you get as stiff as a gentleman...
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