...dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), J will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." than it generally is ; for I am sure that he had less enjoyment from it than I have. Yet, whatever...

...opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth1 ; Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in...

...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...

...diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those, that never heard 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 have derived from their experience...

...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...cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence j and some, who deny it with their tongues, confess it with their fears." — Rasselas. * This is a...

...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." He then proceeds to expand the argument, and contends that, however many may have been the tales of...

...diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those, that never heard 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 have derived from their experience...

...those, that 'ever heard of one another, would not have agreed in a lie which nothing but excellence can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers,...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. Yet I do not mean to add new terrours to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be...

...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." It will, we know, be urged, that in these great men the feeling may have been implanted by some defect...

...diffused, could become universal only by its truth; those, that never heard 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 have derived from their experience...