 Imlac,) 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 prevails...  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Σελίδα 96των Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 σελίδες
...promise you safety : there is no danger from the dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), I will...people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of die dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused,... | |
 | 1848 - 622 σελίδες
...which, he was thus, with a noble sense of duty, endeavouring to provide by the labours of his pen. ' That the dead are seen no more,' said Imlac, ' I will...no people rude or learned, among whom apparitions are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused,... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 σελίδες
...the dead : he that is once buried will be seen no more/' ' "That the dead are seen no more," replied Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain against...apparitions of the dead are not related and believed." In this saying of Imlac we must suppose Johnson's opinion to be mainly embodied, although it may not... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 σελίδες
...he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more," replied Tinlac, " I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...apparitions of the dead are not related and believed." In this saying of Tinlac we must suppose Johnson's opinion to be mainly embodied, although it may not... | |
 | 1851 - 566 σελίδες
...promise you safety; there is no danger from the dead. He that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will...among whom apparitions of the dead are not related or believed. This opinion, which prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal... | |
 | John Whitehead - 1852 - 582 σελίδες
...promise you safety: there is no danger from the dead; he that is onco buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac) I will...are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as fur as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never... | |
 | Henry Townley - 1852 - 110 σελίδες
...ghosts, may be applied to the assumed universal belief in Deity : — " That dead men are seen no more, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related... | |
 | 1854 - 382 σελίδες
...convert to the truth of that saying of the philosopher in "Rasselas," that it is more bold than wise to undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations, that the dead are seen no more. Philosophers of the school of Ennemoser* — at once the most credulous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 120 σελίδες
...little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will...are not related and believed. This opinion, which, " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1856 - 80 σελίδες
...quickness of woman, as resulting from this divine institution, the author's ' Sexuality of Nature.' t " ' That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, ' I will...unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. » » » This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could hecome universal only... | |
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