 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 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 d. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrours to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 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." - . Cavillers have indeed doubted the credibility of this tale, rejecting it in every instance as the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 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...cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence j and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears." Cavillers have indeed doubted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 pages
...which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth 3 those that never heard of one another, would not have...it with their tongues confess -it by their fears." Cavillers have indeed doubted the credibility of this tale, rejecting it in every instance as the dream... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 pages
...which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truthj those that never heard of one another, would not have...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." Cavillers have indeed doubted the credibility of this tale, rejecting it in every instance as the dream... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 602 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...nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubtcil by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 442 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...cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; aud some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...promise you safety : there is no danger from the dead ; he that is onco buried will be seen no more. will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; aud some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration... | |
 | 1825 - 362 pages
...universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another, would never have agreed in a talc which nothing but experience can make credible. —...it with their tongues confess it by their fears." ' i\o man is privileged to impugn the knowledge of existences which others have derived from their... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as 1 »r as human nature is diffused, could become universal...little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny H with their tongues, confess it by their fears." nerally is ; for I am sure that he had less enjoyment... | |
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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... 
