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Apparitions: a Narrative of Facts - Page 16
by Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1874 - 280 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...

James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...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...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails' as far as human nature is diffused, could...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...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails3 as far as human nature is diffused, could 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...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...dead; he that is once buried will be seen no more." concurrent and unvaried testimony of all and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned,...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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,...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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could...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 cred- 1759. ible....
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Rasselas: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
..." I win not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned,...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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...no people, rude or unlearned, among whom «'. • .. - ->VoL 2, p. 98. apparitions of the dead arc not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps...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...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...unlearned, among whom • Vol. 2, p. 98. apparitions of the dead are not related and bc• liou-d. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human...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...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...p. 98. apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails a* far as human nature is diffused, could 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...
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