DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man, whose imagination does not sometimes... Works - Página 389por Samuel Johnson - 1811Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Jacqueline Labrude Estenne - 1995 - 468 páginas
...Mackenzie, on mesure le triomphe discret de la tolérance envers la marginalité. En affirmant que "[p]erhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state" (Rasselas 114), Samuel Johnson attire l'attention sur le fait que tout homme est en puissance un malade... | |
| Keith Michael Baker, Peter Hanns Reill - 2001 - 220 páginas
...the world's population, for good or ill. Imlac concludes that no one is safe from the imagination: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes...will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. ... All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; . . . By degrees the reign of fancy is... | |
| Fredric V. Bogel - 2001 - 280 páginas
...what is an admitted bias, such research may seem merely to update Imlac's dry remark late in Rasselas: "Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state." In fact, hypotheses such as the egocentricity bias can do more than this. They can help us to situate... | |
| Peter Louis Galison, Stephen Richards Graubard, Everett Mendelsohn - 260 páginas
...population on his shoulders. Imlac reflects that no one is immune from the depredations of the imagination: "There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, . . . All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; ... By degrees the reign of fancy is... | |
| Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 páginas
...traditional Christian sense of human frailty, and his distrust of egoism, pride and presump182 tion: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate this attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. . . . All power... | |
| William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - 352 páginas
...with his traditional Christian sense of human frailty and distrust of egoism, pride, and presumption: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate this attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be... | |
| John Carey - 2006 - 300 páginas
...uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason . . . There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason . . . and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy over... | |
| Susanne Antonetta - 2007 - 260 páginas
...you're an Alice with your distorted self waiting. Johnson, Brigham 's hero, goes so far as to say that "if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state" and writes movingly of the start of psychosis: "He who has nothing external that can divert him, must... | |
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