 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...I should not know what to select, or rather, what to omit. I shall, however, transcribe one, as it shews how well he could state the arguments of those...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rassclas, I will not maintain that the ' morbid melancholy1 '... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...suppose that he himself ever positively held : " If all your fear be of apparitions, (said thePrince,) I will promise you safety : there is no danger from...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy "... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails3 as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rassclas, I will not maintain that the 'morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...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. "Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet T do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pi-kuali. Dd3 There... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...I should not know what to select, or, rather what to omit. I shall, however, transcribe one, as it shews how well he could state the arguments of those...agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make cred- 1759. ible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very ^7T i- ii . i • i , , , •oi'tat.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...Vol. 2, p. 98. apparitions of the dead are not related and bc• liou-d. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his life; in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...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. Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be no... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...- ->VoL 2, p. 98. apparitions of the dead arc 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."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his life; in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...p. 98. apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails a* far as human nature is diffused, could become universal...who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their feais."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his... | |
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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... 
