 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 - Сторінка 741822Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | John Whitehead - 1852 - 582 стор.
...the dead; he that is onco buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac) I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as fur as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1852 - 456 стор.
...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... | |
 | Henry Townley - 1852 - 110 стор.
...ghosts, may be applied to the assumed universal belief in Deity : — " That dead men are seen no more, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related... | |
 | 1854 - 382 стор.
...convert to the truth of that saying of the philosopher in "Rasselas," that it is more bold than wise to undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations, that the dead are seen no more. Philosophers of the school of Ennemoser* — at once the most credulous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 120 стор.
...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...are not related and believed. This opinion, which, " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1856 - 80 стор.
...institution, the author's ' Sexuality of Nature.' t " ' That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, ' I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. » » » This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could hecome universal only... | |
 | 1858 - 688 стор.
...abounds in instances of these three supernaturals. Says Dr. Johnson : " That the dead are seen no more, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who... | |
 | Uriah Clark - 1863 - 312 стор.
...outgrown our dream of an angel when we meet again. — Theodore Parker. That the dead are seen no more I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...and believed. This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails us far as human nature is diffused, could become CELESTIAL FOOTPRINTS. 15 universal only by its truth... | |
 | Uriah Clark - 1863 - 318 стор.
...angel when we meet again. — Theodore Parker. That the dead are seen no more I will not undertake lo maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony...believed. This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far aa» human nature is diffused, could become CELESTIAL FOOTPRINTS. 15 universal only by its truth ;... | |
 | Henry Spicer - 1863 - 264 стор.
...One is forcibly reminded of the words of Imlac, the Sage: — "There is no people, rude 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 its truth." Sometimes the... | |
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