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... Periodical Criticism - Page 271by Walter Scott - 1835Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rassclas, I will not maintain that the ' morbid melancholy1 '... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy "... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rassclas, I will not maintain that the 'morbid melancholy" in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears. "Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet T do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pi-kuali. Dd3 There... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale, which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his life; in... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears. Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be no... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale, which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his life; in... | |
| Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale, which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their feais."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
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