 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails' as far as human nature is diffused, could...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rassclas, I will not maintain that the ' morbid melancholy1 '... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rasselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy "... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails3 as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rassclas, I will not maintain that the 'morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...nodanger from the dead ; he that is once buried will be seen no more." " That the dead are seen ho more," said Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain,...with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet T do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pi-kuali. Dd3 There can be... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make cred- 1759. ible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very ^7T i- ii . i • i , , , •oi'tat.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...no people, rude or unlearned, among whom «'. • .. - ->VoL 2, p. 98. apparitions of the dead arc not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his life; in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...unlearned, among whom • Vol. 2, p. 98. apparitions of the dead are not related and bc• liou-d. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his life; in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...p. 98. apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails a* far as human nature is diffused, could become universal...who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their feais."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could...it with their tongues, confess it by their fears." Notwithstanding my high admiration of Raeselas, I will not maintain that the " morbid melancholy" in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...flp before us, and perhaps shut us in for ever." She spoke, and threw her arms round the neck of he? mistress. " If all your fear be of apparitions," said...experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavil}ers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues confess... | |
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This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth ; those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted... 
