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, as far... The Manchester iris - 第 74 頁1822完整檢視 - 關於此書
| William Henderson - 1846 - 144 頁
...ghosts too. It was precisely on such testimony that Johnson did so. " This opinion," says the sage, " which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth." One word more and I have done with this question of antiquity. You never once advert to the notorious... | |
| Esq. J. H. JAMES (of London.) - 1847 - 184 頁
...Arab, whose revenue was plunder, was willing to restore her for two hundred ounces of gold. There are no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related or believed. And her mind, though forced into short excursions, always recurred to the image of her... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 340 頁
...or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by - truth * ; those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but... | |
| William Drennan - 1848 - 180 頁
...writes well and feelingly in Rasselas (chap, vi.) : — " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. * * * * That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 頁
...dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " Thai the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. Tins opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 374 頁
...dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...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 頁
...endeavouring to provide by the labours of his pen. ' That the dead are seen no more,' said Imlac, ' I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...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 - 476 頁
...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... | |
| Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 頁
...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 the concurrent...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... | |
| 1851 - 566 頁
...dead. He that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...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... | |
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