... undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far... Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale - Strona 141autor: Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 184Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| James Boswell - 1826 - Liczba stron: 442
...believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one- another,...cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; aud some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration... | |
| 1825 - Liczba stron: 362
...universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another, would never have agreed in a talc which nothing but experience can make credible. —...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." ' i\o man is privileged to impugn the knowledge of existences which others have derived from their... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - Liczba stron: 882
...universal only by its tiuth ; those, that never be forgotten, never heard of one another, would never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That Coupled with the incidents just related, the death of the king of Naples in Jait is doubted by single... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - Liczba stron: 622
...believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only sure isa word of dubious import ; pleasure is in general...therefore to furnish pleasure that is harmless, pleasure nerally is ; for I am sure that he had less enjoyment from it than I have. Yet, whatever additional... | |
| James Boswell - 1827 - Liczba stron: 576
...believed. This opinion, which prevails as 1 »r as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another,...little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny H with their tongues, confess it by their fears." nerally is ; for I am sure that he had less enjoyment... | |
| 1827 - Liczba stron: 712
...is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Upon such principles as these there lingers in the breasts even of philosophers, a reluctance to decide... | |
| 1827 - Liczba stron: 698
...those that never heard of one another could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience cun make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers,...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Upon such principles as these there lingers in the breasts even of philosophers, a reluctance to decide... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1827 - Liczba stron: 160
...This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become uni versal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another,...nothing but experience can make credible. That it it doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken tlie general evidence; and some who deny it... | |
| Lucy Hake - 1828 - Liczba stron: 506
...perhaps, preyails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal 255 by its truth. Those who never heard of one another would not have agreed in...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' " In dark and sequestered retreats, imagination feasts upon its own inventions. The gloom in which... | |
| Richard Thomson - 1828 - Liczba stron: 374
...which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by it's truth. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." With considerable ceremony Mr. Stiff was introduced into the haunted room by Parsons himself, who was... | |
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