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... The every-day book: or The guide to the year - Seite 125von William Hone - 1859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Boswell - 1835 - 378 Seiten
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." than it generally is ; for I am sure that he had less enjoyment from it than I have. Yet, whatever... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 Seiten
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
| Clement Carlyon - 1836 - 340 Seiten
...another, would not have agreed in a tale, which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." He then proceeds to expand the argument, and contends that, however many may have been the tales of... | |
| William Hone - 1839 - 874 Seiten
...another, would never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken...testimony would be satisfactory to most : he daringly falsities what he knows to be indubitably true, and secret convictions belie the shameless hardihood... | |
| 1839 - 508 Seiten
...another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." It will, we know, be urged, that in these great men the feeling may have been implanted by some defect... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 Seiten
...another, could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...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... | |
| 1858 - 690 Seiten
...to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." — Rasselas, xxxi. 10. While Mr. Wesley read some sermons, as Seed's, Blair's, and Erskine's, and... | |
| Blowhard - 1841 - 316 Seiten
...nothing but experience can make credible : that it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little lessen the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Doctor Johnson. In the rear of Madame Sturgeon's house, for she liked to have every thing called her's,... | |
| 1843 - 676 Seiten
...another could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Gazette's infancy and youth were spent in a manner well calculated to nourish a strong belief in supernatural... | |
| John Whitehead - 1793 - 588 Seiten
...another, would not have agreed in » tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears." In September this year, Mr. Wesley wrote the following letter to Mr. James Morgan,... | |
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