 I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails...  The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale - Pagina 358door Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 214 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,...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 no reason why spectres should... | |
 | 1839 - 508 pagina’s
...which would be suggested by the activity of the organ. " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 456 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1858 - 690 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1843 - 676 pagina’s
...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." Gazette's infancy and youth were spent in a manner well calculated to nourish a strong belief in supernatural... | |
 | John Whitehead - 1793 - 588 pagina’s
...licorne universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in » tale which nothing but experience can make credible....and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears." In September this year, Mr. Wesley wrote the following letter to Mr. James Morgan,... | |
 | John Whitehead - 1845 - 584 pagina’s
...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...and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears." In September this year, Mr. Wesley wrote the following letter to Mr. James Morgan,... | |
 | John Whitehead - 1845 - 594 pagina’s
...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...cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence: and ноте who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears." In September this year, Mr.... | |
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