 | Robert Blakey - 1836 - 388 pages
...feel in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing on a dancer on the slack-rope, naturally writhe, and...their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they feel they themselves must do, if in his situation. Persons of delicate fibres and a weak constitution of... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837 - 510 pages
...be filled with the same anxiety, which we may suppose to exist in the rope dancer himself ; but they naturally writhe, and twist, and balance their own bodies, as they see him do. It has also been frequently remarked, that when we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1840 - 420 pages
...be filled with the same anxiety which we may suppose to exist in the rope-dancer himself, but they naturally writhe, and twist, and balance their own bodies as they see him do. It has also been frequently remarked, that, when we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 538 pages
...be filled with the same anxiety, which we may suppose to exist in the rope-dancer himself; but they naturally writhe, and twist, and balance their own bodies as they see him do. It has also been frequently remarked, that when we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 512 pages
...be filled with the same anxiety which we may suppose to exist in the rope-dancer himself, but they naturally writhe, and twist, and balance their own bodies as they see him do. It has also been frequently remarked, that when we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 516 pages
...be filled with the same anxiety, which we may suppose to exist in the rope-dancer himself; but they naturally writhe, and twist, and balance their own bodies as they see him do. It has also been frequently remarked, that when we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 pages
...be filled with the same anxiety which we may suppose to exist in the rope-dancer himself, but they naturally writhe, and twist, and balance their own bodies as they see him do. It has also been frequently remarked, that when we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 pages
...The mob," to quote an instance from Adam Smith, " when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies, as they see him ^ 108 Instinct and Intellect. [J"ly, as they feel that they themselves must do, if in his situation."... | |
 | 1840 - 832 pages
...or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm ; and when it does fall we feel it in some measure and are hurt...sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally twist and writhe and balance their own bodies, as they see him do, and as they... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1849 - 450 pages
...alludes to this contrast in his Hymn to Adversity: — "To each his sufferings; all are men when it does fall we feel it in some measure, and are hurt...sufferer. The mob, when they are gazing at a dancer on the slack rope, naturally writhe and twist and balance their own bodies as they see him do, and as they... | |
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When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer. 
