 Tis that which we all see and know.' Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously...  The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Pagina 221826Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | George McKendree Steele - 1889 - 286 pagina’s
...marvellous descriptive power, than as a remarkably accurate representation of the subject: " It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, Dr. Barrow's so variously apprehended by several eyes and description, judgments, that it seemeth no... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform mm by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemed no 1саь hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a 'portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 548 pagina’s
...the desire of augmenting it grows stronger in proportion to the advance in acquisition ; as motion is a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | 1891 - 780 pagina’s
...and he himself admits the difficulty of defining that imponderable quantity, when he describes it as "a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof than to make... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth I no less hard to settle a clear and certain no- ¡ tion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 pagina’s
...appearing13 inu so many shapes, so many postures,15 and so many garbs,16 — so variously apprehended by 17 several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less...hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof 18 than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 19 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagina’s
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, ¡than to_ make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pagina’s
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, that I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 pagina’s
...one better apprehends what it is by acquain'ance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 pagina’s
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than 10 make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat... | |
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