Clergyman's

Man soon finds what he wants to find. If he cannot find it otherwise, he creates it for his special enjoyment: for instance, if a man wants to see a ghost, he need only promulge his wish some night around a decaying fire, with a few alarmed and shocked listeners. Then let him ascend in the dark to a remote chamber, carefully looking over his shoulder every few moments; and if he will not see a ghost, he will feel as if he saw one, and that will be tantamount thereto.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

The emperor relied on his popularity, the obedient habits of his subjects, and chiefly on the prejudices of the people against anything that could be subjected, right or wrong, to the charge of unconstitutionality.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

War and fights, like courtship and kisses, are seldom interesting except to the actors and their connexions; hence I will not burden my readers with the military operations of these remote regions.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

War and fights, like courtship and kisses, are seldom interesting except to the actors and their connexions; hence I will not burden my readers with the military operations of these remote regions.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

Locke supposes that a person acquainted sensibly with the colours which compose a rainbow, can by the names of such colours in a verbal description, be made visually acquainted with a rainbow. The verbal description will give such a person's intellect a good verbal definition of the word rainbow, but it cannot communicate the sight to the extent that it differs, in any manner from the sights he already knows.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

In every particular in which a picture constitutes a sight that is not identical with the sight represented, the picture will fail to communicate the represented object.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

Many branches of knowledge exist in our world that are unknown to theory and untaught in schools.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

In Boresko, the government, though imperial, grants the people some power. They collect annually, and, marching to the palace, signify to the emperor their wishes, which he is constrained to respect. To march at the head of such a procession confers power and influence, and those who thus march are called political leaders.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

All that the book contains is the elucidation of but one precept: namely, to interpret language by nature. We reverse the rule and interpret nature by language.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson

All that the book contains is the elucidation of but one precept: namely, to interpret language by nature. We reverse the rule and interpret nature by language.
- Alexander Bryan Johnson