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 - 1860 - 960 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... | |
| Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 424 Seiten
...another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could 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." To this passage Byron alludes in the following : — " I merely mean to say what... | |
| Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 542 Seiten
...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; and some who deny it with their tongues confess it with their fears." To this passage Byron alludes in the following : — "I merely mean to say what... | |
| Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 Seiten
...agrced in a tale which nothing but experience could make credible. That it is doubted by single cavilers can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues confess it with their fears." To this passage Byron alludes in the following : — "I merely mean to say what... | |
| John Timbs - 1861 - 314 Seiten
...another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could 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." To this passage Lord Byron thus alludes : I merely mean to say what Johnson said,... | |
| David Murdoch - 1861 - 484 Seiten
...will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken...and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears." — JOHNSON'S RASSELAS. MARTIN SCHUYLER was marched to the same camp* where his... | |
| David Murdoch - 1861 - 486 Seiten
...will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken...general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tonguefl, confees it with their fears."—JOHNSON'S RASSELAS. MARTIN SCIIUYLER was marched to the same... | |
| 1861 - 606 Seiten
...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; and some who deny it with their tongues confess it with their fears." In the same age Blackstonc, in his Commentaries, says, concerning occult powers... | |
| William Howitt - 1863 - 558 Seiten
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could render credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken...it with their tongues confess it by their fears.' Boswell, in his ' Life of Johnson,' also introduces the subject of apparitions on the occasion of a... | |
| Uriah Clark - 1863 - 318 Seiten
...another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could render credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. — Dr. Johnson. As to the power of holding intercourse with spirits enfranchised from our present... | |
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