 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...  Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama - Strana 272podľa Walter Scott - 1887 - Počet stránok 403Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | James Boswell - 1835 - Počet stránok 378
...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...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 - Počet stránok 604
...diffused, could become universal only by its truth1 ; those that never heard of one another, would Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - Počet stránok 876
...diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those, that never heard 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 have derived from their experience... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - 1836 - Počet stránok 340
...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...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 - 1837 - Počet stránok 954
...diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those, that never heard 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 have derived from their experience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - Počet stránok 128
...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... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 508
...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...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... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - Počet stránok 874
...diffused, could become universal only by its truth; those, that never heard 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 have derived from their experience... | |
 | 1858 - Počet stránok 690
...undertake 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...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 - Počet stránok 316
...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,... | |
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