 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...  The Manchester iris - Page 741822Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Unix). 1 will not undertake to maintain, ininrt the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is •> people, rude or learned, among whom appiritions of the dead are not related and beWvtd. This opinion,... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - Genius - 1833 - 310 pages
...to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations. There are no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related or believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become... | |
 | 1863 - 622 pages
...admitting, in the language of Johnson, that some belief in apparitions of the dead may be supported by ' the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations,' we sec a marked difference between the venerable and general belief or superstition of past ages, and... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 pages
...that might have been excited by the recent spectre. " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those, that... | |
 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1835 - 452 pages
...Johnson's doubts respecting supernatural appearances. '* That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 420 pages
...Johnson's doubts respecting supernatural appearances. " That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...the dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), H 0 prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth1 ; those that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), J will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - Physicians - 1836 - 340 pages
...to the well-known passage in Rasselas, where Imlac is made to say, " That the dead are seen no more, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...still In its behalf, let those deny who will. (1) [" That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent...ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails... | |
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