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... Lives of eminent persons - 440. oldalszerző: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 oldal
...universal onlv 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...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 oldal
...those, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but ex.s perience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers,...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrours to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 oldal
...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...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 oldal
...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...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 oldal
...that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience cd&lnake credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers,...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 oldal
...not have agreed in a tale which nothingbutexperiencecau make credibJe. That it is doubted by singje cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pelt tiah. There can... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 oldal
...possibly have employed. Imlac, in Rasselas, speaking of the appearance of departed spirits, says, " Some who deny it with • their tongues, confess it by their fears." So with Assalini, and, indeed, the same may be said of many others who affect to disbelieve the doctrine... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 250 oldal
...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...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 oldal
...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...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrours to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 oldal
...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...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Raeselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
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