 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 trang
...provided that he cannot easily be lost." The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Chronology is the eye of history. Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.... | |
 | Lucy Yeend Culler - 1883 - 250 trang
...Dr. Johnson was wont to say: "The use of travelling is to regulate the imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." That is, it broadens the mind, and enlarges the views, of him whose happiness it is to travel. There... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 trang
...barbarous. — Life. April 10, 1783. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination to reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. — Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 79. The greater part of travellers tell nothing, Tnuwllers , iu •... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 496 trang
...rolling between me and Streatham. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are %_ Here are mountains which I should once have climbed, but to climb steeps is now very laborious,... | |
 | Thomas L. Rogers - 1893 - 434 trang
...dust." Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. "The use of travelling is to regulate the imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." Dr. Johnson. ^^ we reach the city, where our attention will I be absorbed by the scenes immediately... | |
 | New-Hampshire Medical Society - 1893 - 394 trang
...GP CONN, MD, CONCORD, N. II. " The use of travelling is to regulate the imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." — Dr. Johnson. That the reader may comprehend some of the various difficulties the hygienist has... | |
 | New England Society in the City of New York - 1895 - 532 trang
...COLONEL RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON. " The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by realty, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." — Dr. Johnson. " "Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home." — Shakespeare.... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 trang
...— BoiweWs Life of Johnson. 1773. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, opatra. Act II. Sc. 2". L. 61. Happy in this, she is not yet so c. SAM'L JOHNSON — Piozzi's Johmoniana. 154. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many... | |
 | Douglas William Freshfield - 1896 - 482 trang
...CHAPTER III CAUCASIAN HISTORY AND TRAVEL The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be to see them as they are. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. "^HERE are still several questions to which the reader interested in the Caucasus... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 trang
...doth a banishment become. — DONNE. The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, * to see them as they are. — DR. JOHNSON. He travels safest in the dark who travels lightest.— CORTES. Usually speaking, the... | |
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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. 
