 ... 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 as far...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale - Sivu 141tekijä(t) Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 184 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 184 sivua
...perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffufed, could become univerfal only by its truth : thofe, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by fingle cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and fome who deny it with their tongue^... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 sivua
...prevails as far as human nature isdiffufed, could become 7 univerfal univerfal only by its truth: thofe, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by fingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and fome who deny it with their tongues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 sivua
...perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffufed, could become univerfal only by its truth: thofe, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by Tingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence} and fome who deny it with their tongues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 sivua
...prevails as far as human nature is diffufed, could become univerfal only by its truth: thofe, thac never heard of one another, would not have agreed...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by fingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and fome who deny it with their tongues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 sivua
...Become univerfal only by its truth: thofe, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed jn a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by fingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and fome who deny it with their tongues... | |
 | 1788 - 778 sivua
...univerl'al only by il"» ' truth: thole, that never heard of one ' another, would not have agreed in 1 a tale which nothing but experience ' can make credible. That it is doubt' cd by fingle cavillers, can very little ' weaken the general evidence; and lome ' who deny it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 sivua
...as far as - human nature is diffufed, could become 2. univerfal univerfal only by its truth: thofe, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by fingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and fome who deny it with their tongues... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 sivua
...which prevails as far as human nature is diffufed, could become univerfal only by its truth ; thofe that never heard of one another, would not have agreed...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by lingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and fome who deny it with their tongues,... | |
 | 1791 - 542 sivua
...prevails ss far as human nature is diffuled, could become univerlal or.ly by1 its truth ; thofe lhat never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can malte credibls. That it is doubted by fingk cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 sivua
...perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffufed, could become univerfal only by its truth : thofe, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by fingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and fome who deny it with their tongues... | |
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