All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that 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;... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 381von Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1750 - 228 Seiten
...happinefs or calamities of others, is produced by an act of the imagination, that realifcs the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us for a time in the condition VoL. III. H of of him whole fortune we contemplate ; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 292 Seiten
...happmefs or calami• ties of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realifes the,event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, m the condition of him whofe fortune we contemplate; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever... | |
| 1785 - 596 Seiten
...calamities of others is .produced by an act of the imagination, that readies the event however ndlitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whofe fortune we contemplate; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatevtr motions would be... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 Seiten
...happinefs or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realifes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote,...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whole fortune we contemplate ; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever motions would be... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...happinefs or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realifes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote,...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whole fortune we contemplate ; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever motions would be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 Seiten
...happinefs or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realifes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote,...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whofe fortune we contemplate; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever motions would be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 Seiten
...happinefs or calamities of others is produced by an ac't of the imagination, that realifesr- the event, however fictitious, or approximates it however remote,...by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whofe fortune we contemplate ; fo that we feel, while the deception lafts, whatever motions would be... | |
| 1801 - 326 Seiten
...of others, is produced by an act of the imagination, that realifes the event however' fi£titious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him c 6 whofe whofe fortune we contemplate ; fo that we feel, while the .deception lafts, whatever motions... | |
| 1806 - 346 Seiten
...happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote,...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 - 602 Seiten
...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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