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... The Manchester iris - Page 741822Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diifused, could become universal only by its truth : those that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1816 - 250 pages
...; he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " 1 will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as hu.man nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those, that... | |
| John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as haman nature is diffused, could become universal ouly by its truth : those, that... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more, (said Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth; those that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 pages
...the dead ; he that is once buried, will be seen no more. That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 286 pages
...the dead; he that is once buried, will be seen no more. That the dead are seen no more, said Tmlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps •prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those, that... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no inore, (said Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, uinoug whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails, as... | |
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