 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 184 pages
...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...general evidence, and fome who deny it with their tongue^ confefs it by their fears. ** Yet I do not mean to add new terrours to thole which have already... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...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...deny it with their tongues confefs it by their fears. i ' • ** Yet I do not mean to add new terrours to thofe which have already feized upon Pekuah. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...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....thofe which have already feized upon Pekuah. There can be no reafon why fpeftres fhould haunt the pyramid more than other places, or why they, fhould... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...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... | |
 | English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...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 - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...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...thofe which have already feized upon Pekuah. There can be no reafon why fpectres fhould haunt the pyramid more than other places, or _why they. Ihould... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...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 iingle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and fome who deny it with their tongues,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by fmgle cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence...it with their tongues, confefs it by their fears." Notwithftanding the high admiration of Raflelas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy"... | |
 | English literature - 1791 - 542 pages
...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 pages
...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...thofe which have already feized upon Pekuah. There can be no reafon why fpeclres fhould haunt the pyramid more than other places, or why they fhould have... | |
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This opinion, which perhaps 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... 
