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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ... - Page 85
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The Album, Volume 1

1822 - 452 pages
...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 by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...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 by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues,...
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The Manchester iris, Volume 1

1822 - 394 pages
...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 doimted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; aud some who deny it with...
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The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 764 pages
...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 by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it •with their tongues,...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrours to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be no reason why spectres should haunt the pyramid...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...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 by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues,...
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Questions in Political Economy, Politics, Morals, Metaphysics, Polite ...

Samuel Bailey - 1823 - 424 pages
...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 . by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some, who deny it with their tongues,...
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Accredited Ghost Stories

T. M. Jarvis - 1823 - 252 pages
...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 by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; B and some who deny it with their tongues...
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The novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and ...

Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears. : " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be no reason why spectres should...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pages
...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 by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and some, who deny it with their tongues,...
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