| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it scemclh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it in ih in pat allusion to a known story, or in a seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than :o male a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in a sea* sonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1818 - 584 pages
...many poftures, fo many garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judgments, that it feemeth no lefs hard to fettle a clear and certain notion...to a known ftory, or in feafonable application of VOL. i. x SERM. a trivial faying, or in forging an appoiite tale : fometimes XIV. it playeth in words... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1818 - 568 pages
...many poftures, fo many garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judgments, that it feemeth no lefs hard to fettle a clear and certain notion...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allunon to a known ftory, or in feafonable application of SERM. a trivial faying, or in forging an... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
| 1821 - 400 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...• of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to n.ake a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable' application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 506 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended oy several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...figure of the fleeting- air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
| Voltaire - Philosophy - 1824 - 524 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an apposite... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
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