 | 1827 - 698 Seiten
...those that never heard of one another could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience cun make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers,...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... | |
 | Lucy Hake - 1828 - 506 Seiten
...perhaps, preyails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal 255 by its truth. Those who never heard of one another would not have agreed in...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' " In dark and sequestered retreats, imagination feasts upon its own inventions. The gloom in which... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 878 Seiten
...diffused, could become universal only by its truth; those, that never beard of one another, would never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." No man is privileged to impugn the knowledge of existences which others hare derived from their experience... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 Seiten
...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." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 Seiten
...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." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1831 - 138 Seiten
...the dead are not. related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far an 1mman nature u diffused, could become universal only by its truth...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by mingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some, who deny it with their tongues,... | |
 | William Howells - 1831 - 220 Seiten
...of the .dead are not related and believed. This opinion could become universal only by its tru;h : those that never heard of one another, would not have...credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears,"... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 Seiten
...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." — Rasselas. * This is a mere sophistry; all ages and all nations are not agreed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 332 Seiten
...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...nothing but experience can make credible. That it ia doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some, who deny it... | |
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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... 
