 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
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 oldal
...universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another, could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 oldal
...universal only by its truth1 ; those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 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." than it generally is ; for I am sure that he had less enjoyment from it than I have. Yet, whatever... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 oldal
...only by its truth ; those, that never heard of one another, would never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." No man is privileged to impugn the knowledge of existences which others have derived from their experience... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 oldal
...another, could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it a 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... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - 1836 - 340 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." He then proceeds to expand the argument, and contends that, however many may have been the tales of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 oldal
...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...cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence j and some, who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears." — Rasselas. * This is a... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 oldal
...only by its truth ; those, that never heard of one another, would never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." No man is privileged to impugn the knowledge of existences which others have derived from their experience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 128 oldal
...those, that 'ever heard of one another, would not have agreed in a lie which nothing but excellence 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 oldal
...universal only by its truth; those that never heard of one another, could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, f can very little weakeu the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tougueg. I confess... | |
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