 | Patricia Palmer, Patricia Ann Palmer - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 280 pages
...Mandeville's headless monsters really did inhabit the upper reaches of the Orinoco, Ralegh reasoned that 'whether it be true or no, the matter is not great, neither can there bee any profit in the imagination' (p. 406). It is a curious comment for one whose only hope of profit... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - History - 2006 - 472 pages
...whose reportes were held for fables many yeares. and 25 yet since the East Indies were discouered, we finde his relations true of such thinges as heeretofore...imagination, for mine owne part I saw them not, but I am 30 resolued that so many people did not all combine, or forethinke to make the report.' When I came... | |
 | Charles W. Eliot - Travel - 2006 - 405 pages
...yet since the East Indies were discovered, we find his relations true of such things as heretofore were held incredible,* Whether it be true or no, the...can there be any profit in the imagination; for mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people did not all combine or forethink to... | |
 | Jonathan P. A. Sell - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...yet since the East Indies were discovered, we find his relations true of such things as heretofore were held incredible: whether it be true or no, the...can there be any profit in the imagination, for mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people did not all combine or forethink to... | |
 | Peter C. Mancall - History - 2006 - 431 pages
...yet since the East Indies were discovered, we find his relations true of such things as heretofore were held incredible: whether it be true or no the matter is not great, neither can there by any being in the imagination, for mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1928 - 650 pages
...yet since the East Indies were discovered, we find his relations true of such things as heretofore were held incredible. Whether it be true or no the...can there be any profit in the imagination. For mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people did not all combine or fore10 think... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1903 - 312 pages
...written of by Mandevile, those reports were holden for fables many years . . . Whether it be true or not the matter is not great, neither can there be any profit in the imagination : for mine own part I saw them not." He regrets he did not chance to hear of them in time, as " I might have brought... | |
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Whether it be true or no, the matter is not great, neither can there be any profit in the imagination. For mine own part I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people did not all combine, or forethink to make the report. 
