 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 strani
...diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another would not nave agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 strani
...Prince), I will promise you safety: there is no danger from the dead ; he that is once buried will be seeu no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac),...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." happy than it generally is ; for I am sure that he had less enjoyment from it than I have. Yet whatever... | |
 | John William Cole - 1859 - 416 strani
...learned, amongst 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." There are, it must be admitted, two damaging points connected with ghosts, in respect to the fulfilment... | |
 | 1861 - 606 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 make credible. That it is doubted by single cavilers can very little weaken the general evidence;... | |
 | Elias De la Roche Rendell - 1864 - 352 strani
...of " Rasselas," has made Imlac, in speaking of a kindred subject, say, " This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." V and he was saved in consequence. The grace and righteousness said to have been found in him were... | |
 | William M. White - 1867 - 650 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...' with their tongues confess it by their fears.'* History and biography abound in instances of vision into the Spiritual World. The Bible is strewn thick... | |
 | 1889 - 1028 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 could make credible. That it is doubted by single cavilers can very little weaken the general evidence;... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 468 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 is needless to quote any other passages in demonstration of the opinions of this extraordinary man,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 470 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...weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it wilh their tongues, confess it by their fears." It is needless to quote any other passages in demonstration... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 strani
...spirits : a doctrine which it is a mistake to suppose that he himself ever positively held :— 'It rohibition, in few places now very rigorously enforced,...for their foundation the care of souls. To obscure, ' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Л«зxlai, I will not maintain that the 'morbid melancholy... | |
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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... 
