 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 860 pàgines
...in Skie. There is neither town nor village in the island, nor have I seen any house but Macleod.s, that is not much below your habitation at Brighthelmstone....reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to gee them as they are. Here are mountains which I should once have climbed ; but to climb steeps "is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pàgines
...from which I look upon the water, and consider how many waves are rolling between me and Streutham. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things mav be, to see them as they are. Here are mountains which I should once have climbed ; but to climb... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pàgines
...•;• •!• 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pàgines
...them; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...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... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pàgines
...them ; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...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... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pàgines
...them; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...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... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pàgines
...them; the acute see a little, and supply the rest with fancy and conjecture. 154. Use of Travelling. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...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... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pàgines
...rejouis, qu'a etre goutés et applaudis; et le plaisir le plus delicat est de faire celui d'autrui.* The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...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... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1845 - 618 pàgines
...stranger manners; but this time it is with a traveller who has abided by Lord Bacon's injunction, that " the use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are." Hence we have not so many crimson banners waving from the battlements, beautiful... | |
 | Augustus Kinsley Gardner - 1849 - 342 pàgines
... r V OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES. OLD WINE IN NEW BOTTLES; OR. BY AUGUSTUS KINSLEY GARDNER, MD The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by...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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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. 
