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The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson... - Page 242
by Samuel Johnson - 1840
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Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter

1808 - 512 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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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th], Volume 4, Part 2

1808 - 602 pages
...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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The Rambler, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 350 pages
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Volume 1

1810 - 464 pages
...whose fortune we contemplate j. so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would.be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves....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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 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 ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, M'hatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves. Our passions are...
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The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 346 pages
...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 ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, * liaiever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves. Our passions art...
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Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Late Rev. Cornelius Winter

Clergy - 1811 - 394 pages
...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 ; ^hose attainments, while they resulted -from the divine blessing, appear not to have beesi preturnatural,...
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The Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1817 - 306 pages
...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...proportion as we can more readily adopt the pains pleasure proposed to our minds, by recognising them as once our own, or considering them as naturally...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, Volume 36

Arminianism - 1813 - 998 pages
...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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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 458 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...
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