 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pages
...much more reasonable, than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,...the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless." Could not I give myself up to this general testimony of mankind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 618 pages
...much more reasonable, than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,...the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless." Could not I give myself up to this general testimony of mankind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pages
...much more reasonable, than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,...the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless." Could not I give myself up to this general testimony of mankind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 pages
...much more reasonable, than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,...the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.* Could not I give myself up to this general testimony of mankind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pages
...to the reports of 1 By that means.] Rather "on that account.'* all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.1 Could not I give myself up to this general testimony of mankind, I should to the relations... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient aud (or indeed of any future evil,) and the uncertainty...of its approach, fill a melancholy mind with innum Could not I give myself up to this general testimony o: mankind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 pages
...specters much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,...the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could not I give myself up to this general testimony of man. kind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 554 pages
...specters much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,...the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could not I give myself up to this general testimony of mankind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
 | Jelinger Cookson Symons - 1860 - 214 pages
...spectres, much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,...the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could not I give myself up to this general testimony of mankind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
 | William Howitt - 1863 - 558 pages
...spectres much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the report of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations,...the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. Could I not give myself up to this general testimony of mankind, I should to the relations of particular... | |
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I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance... 
