 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 Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson... - Page 242by Samuel Johnson - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...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;...moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt (he pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions wonld be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves. Our passions are, therefore, more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a h alteration time has made in himself, and very few...different impressions ; the opinions of both are changed recognizing them as once our own, or considering them as naturally incident to our state of life. It... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...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...moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt die pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognizing them as once our own, or considering them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...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...good or evil happening to ourselves. Our passions are therefor« more strongly moved, in proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains or pleasure proposed... | |
 | 1855 - 660 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...irt the ejuidíüoii_o.fJúiB.wTTose fortune we contemplate ; .so that we feel, while thcjlgr ception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the 'same...adopt the pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognizing them as once our own, or considering them as naturally incident to our state of life. It... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...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...adopt the pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognizing them as once our own, or considering them as naturally incident tu our state of life. It... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...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...adopt the pains or pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognizing them as once our own, or considering them as naturally incident to our state of life. It... | |
 | 1855 - 660 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,... | |
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