 | English literature - 1827 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | Lucy Hake - Anecdotes - 1828 - 506 pages
...perhaps, preyails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal 255 by its truth. Those who never heard of one another would not have agreed in...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' " In dark and sequestered retreats, imagination feasts upon its own inventions. The gloom in which... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...diffused, could become universal only by its truth; those, that never beard 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 hare derived from their experience... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...should not know what to select, or, rather, what to omit. I shall, however, transcribe one, as it shows how well he could state the arguments of those who...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), I will not v undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth 1 ; those that never heard of one another, would not have...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1831 - 138 pages
...the dead are not. related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far an 1mman nature u diffused, could become universal only by its truth...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by mingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some, who deny it with their tongues,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 334 pages
...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." — Rasselas. * This is a mere sophistry; all ages and all nations are not agreed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 332 pages
...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...nothing but experience can make credible. That it ia doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some, who deny it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1833 - 162 pages
...become uni versa! only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed iu a tale which nothing but experience can make credible....general evidence; and some who deny it with their tongues,confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already... | |
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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... 
