 | James Boswell - 1874 - 604 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...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... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1874 - 306 pages
...well-known Rasselas, puts into the mouth of the wise Imlac these words : " That the dead 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... | |
 | Henry Kernot - 1874 - 54 pages
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 | John Worth Edmonds - 1875 - 418 pages
...of antiquity, have favored this opinion." —Spectator, No. 110, July 6, It'll. Johnson writes : " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " I will...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... | |
 | 1875 - 782 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 who never... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1877 - 584 pages
...but shrinking from speaking contemptuously of what may be true : — ' That the dead are seen no more I 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... | |
 | Rev. G. W. Grogan - 1877 - 340 pages
...moralist2 (who had meditated deeply, but with a certain sensible shrinking on this funeral theme), " I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all nations and of all ages. There is no people rude or unlearned among whom apparitions of the Dead are... | |
 | 1880 - 376 pages
...one forcibly of that fine passage in Rasselas, where Imlac says : " 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 many who deny... | |
 | Psychic facts - 1880 - 184 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... | |
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Imlac,) 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... 
