 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 strani
...concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related...and some, who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears."— Basselas.] 4.— Stanza x. lino 7. If from a shell-fish or from cochineal. The... | |
 | Frederick Altona Binney - 1873 - 238 strani
...maintain against the concurrent testimony of all ages and nations. There is no people, rude or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related...have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could have made credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken- the general... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 strani
...diff used, could become universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another, would cut have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Raitclat, I will not maintain that the ' morbid melancholy '... | |
 | 1873 - 572 strani
...no people, rude or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. 1 his opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is...have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could have made credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 strani
...I should not know what to select, or, rather, what to omit. I shall, however, transcribe one, as it shews how well he could state the arguments of those...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." * Notwithstanding the high admiration of Kasselas, I will not maintain that the "morbid melancholy"... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1875 - 424 strani
...against the concurrent testimony of all ages and all nations. There is no people, rude or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related...have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience conld make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence... | |
 | John Worth Edmonds - 1875 - 418 strani
...learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...experience can 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... | |
 | 1875 - 592 strani
...learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience could render creditable. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1877 - 584 strani
...but shrinking from speaking contemptuously of what may be true : — ' That the dead are seen no more I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' * One thing is quite clear. If those who have departed from this world ever return to it, it can only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 strani
...learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...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... | |
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This opinion, which 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 by single... 
