 | David Murdoch - 1865 - 476 pages
...three such knaves ? CHAPTER XV. THE SPECTBAL LOOKING-GLASS. " That the dead are seen no more," Bald Imlac, " I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages. That It is doubted by single caviller* can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny... | |
 | David Murdoch - 1865 - 584 pages
...knaves ? CHAPTER XV. THE SPECTEAL LOOKING-GLASS. " That the dead are seen no more," said Iralac, " I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who deny... | |
 | Leo Hartley Grindon - 1866 - 592 pages
...obvious that the reappearance of the dead requires, as a necessary condition, that there shall be * " ' That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will...unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. * * * This opinion, which prevails so far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only... | |
 | 1889 - 1028 pages
...against the concurrent testimony of all ages and all nations. 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 ; those that... | |
 | James Martin Peebles - 1872 - 110 pages
...Bunyan was a thorough spiritualist. Dr. Johnson thus writes : — " 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." Addison speaks of such belief as " confirmed by the general testimony of mankind." Isaac Watts in allusion... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 384 pages
...catt»," — Hamlet, Act II. sc. ii. 3.— Stanza vii. line 4. A visitant at intervals appears; [" That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 380 pages
...eanse," — Hamlet, Act II. sc. ii. 3.— Stanza vii. line 4. A visitant at intercals appears ; [" That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will...the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, nnd of All nations. There is no people, rude er unlearned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...promise you safety : there is no danger from the dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more.' ' That the dead are seen no more,' said Imlac, ' I will...the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages anil of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead sire not... | |
 | Frederick Altona Binney - 1873 - 238 pages
...maintain against the concurrent testimony of all ages and nations. 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 : those that... | |
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