 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed...known with certainty. Thus it was that Wheeler and Spon 1 described with irreconcilable contrariety things which they surveyed together, and which both... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 pages
...imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed...cannot be trusted safely but to the eye, and told by a guess what a few hours before they had known with certainty. Thus it was that Wheeler and Spen described... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1909 - 32 pages
...; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how ' many particular features and discriminations will be compressed...and conglobated into one gross and general idea.' And it was the despiser of history who wrote the famous passage on historical associations : the patriotism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 pages
...imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed...known with certainty. Thus it was that Wheeler and S^>o« described with irreconcilable contrariety things which they surveyed together, and which both... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 368 pages
...imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed...and conglobated into one gross and general idea." And it was the despiser of history who wrote the famous passage on historical associations : the patriotism... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 366 pages
...imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed...and conglobated into one gross and general idea." And it was the despiser of history who wrote the famous passage on historical associations : the patriotism... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 pages
...imagery; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea. I committed the fault which I have just been censuring, in neglecting, as we passed, to note the series... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1998 - 450 pages
...confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobaied inco one gross and general idea, To this dilatory notation...to deceive. They trusted to memory, what cannot be trusied safely but to the eye, and told by guess what a few hours before they had known with certaincy,... | |
 | Jonathan Lamb - 2001 - 358 pages
...succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused . . . and conglobated in one gross and general idea. To this dilatory notation...travellers, where there is no imaginable motive to deceive. —Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Isles In the "Introductory Discourse containing the History... | |
 | George Dekker - 2005 - 342 pages
...imagery; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed...travellers, where there is no imaginable motive to deceive." A Journey to the Western Islands of 'Scotland'(1775), ed. JD Fleeman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985),... | |
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... has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery ; how the succession of objects will be broken,... 
