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... reason facili- tates control over man's feelings and passions , Johnson argues in the Rambler no . 8 , that the man who " would govern his actions by the laws of vir- tue , must regulate his thoughts by those of reason " ( Works , III ...
... reason facili- tates control over man's feelings and passions , Johnson argues in the Rambler no . 8 , that the man who " would govern his actions by the laws of vir- tue , must regulate his thoughts by those of reason " ( Works , III ...
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... reason must predom- inate over " those passions which now pruduce all our pains and all our pleasures , " he never regarded the predominance of reason as an easy achievement , however necessary it might be ( Rambler 8 , III , 43 ) . Nor ...
... reason must predom- inate over " those passions which now pruduce all our pains and all our pleasures , " he never regarded the predominance of reason as an easy achievement , however necessary it might be ( Rambler 8 , III , 43 ) . Nor ...
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... reason and moral principle . But while in the first novel her characters Elinor and Marianne are mere personi- fications of reason and feeling , who clearly derive from an eighteenth - century moral schema- fization , her ...
... reason and moral principle . But while in the first novel her characters Elinor and Marianne are mere personi- fications of reason and feeling , who clearly derive from an eighteenth - century moral schema- fization , her ...
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