 | James Boswell - 1860 - Liczba stron: 496
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." happy than it generally is ; for I am sure that he had less enjoyment from it than I have. Yet whatever... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - Liczba stron: 960
...opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth 1 ; those that never heard of one another, would not have...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - Liczba stron: 542
...or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could make credible. That it is doubted by single cavilers can very little weaken the general evidence;... | |
 | 1861 - Liczba stron: 606
...or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could make credible. That it is doubted by single cavilers can very little weaken the general evidence;... | |
 | Elias De la Roche Rendell - 1864 - Liczba stron: 352
...in his philosophical tale of " Rasselas," has made Imlac, in speaking of a kindred subject, say, " This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." V and he was saved in consequence. The grace and righteousness said to have been found in him were... | |
 | William M. White - 1867 - Liczba stron: 650
...exercised his faculty of double sight is far from unique. Imlac says — ' That the dead are seen no more I will not undertake to ' maintain against the concurrent...' with their tongues confess it by their fears.'* History and biography abound in instances of vision into the Spiritual World. The Bible is strewn thick... | |
 | 1889 - Liczba stron: 1028
...or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could make credible. That it is doubted by single cavilers can very little weaken the general evidence;... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1871 - Liczba stron: 468
...Bos well. In Easselas, Imlac is made to state the argument thus — " That the dead are seen no more, I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." It is needless to quote any other passages in demonstration of the opinions of this extraordinary man,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1871 - Liczba stron: 470
...Boswell. In Rasselas, Imlac is made to state the argument thus — " That the dead are seen no more, I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it wilh their tongues, confess it by their fears." It is needless to quote any other passages in demonstration... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - Liczba stron: 384
...or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...and some, who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears."— Basselas.] 4.— Stanza x. lino 7. If from a shell-fish or from cochineal. The... | |
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This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted... 
