 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 strani
...dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), J will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...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 - 604 strani
...opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth1 ; Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 strani
...is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another, could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience...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... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 strani
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 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...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... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - 1836 - 340 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...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 - 954 strani
...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 - 128 strani
...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 - 508 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...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 - 874 strani
...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... | |
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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... 
