 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1880 - 156 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... | |
 | 1881 - 322 pages
...undertake to maintain against the concurrent testimony of all ages and all nations. There is no people 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." Notwithstanding... | |
 | 1881 - 336 pages
...it, by which means we often behold the shapes and shadows of persons who are either dead or absent." 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." Notwithstanding... | |
 | Joseph Hughes - 1883 - 568 pages
...these figures is employed in the above passage ? 4. .What information can you give about the author ? ' That the dead are seen no more,' said Imlac, ' I will not under take to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations.... | |
 | 1883 - 654 pages
...these figures is employed in the above passage î 4. What information can you give about the author ? ' That the dead are seen no more,' said Imlac, ' I will not under take to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 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 never... | |
 | Christian Brothers - 1884 - 516 pages
...dead are seen no more," says Dr. Johnson, " I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent testimony of all ages and of all nations. There is...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1884 - 110 pages
...unseen, As if they were still with us." Dr. Johnson thus wrote : — " 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 spoke of such belief as " confirmed by the general testimony of mankind." Isaac Watts, in allusion... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - 1885 - 336 pages
...in our philosophy." or the indisputable opinion of Dr. Johnson, in " That the dead are seen no more, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead .ire not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused,... | |
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