 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...defcription. It is, indeed, a thing fo verfatile and multiform, appearing in fo many fhapes, fo many pollurcs, fo many garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat aliufion to a known... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...description. It is, indeed, a thing fo verfatiic and multiform, appearing in fo many fhapes, fo many poftures, fo many garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judgements, that it feemcth no lefs hard to fettle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | William Seward - 1795 - 684 pages
...poftures, fo many *' garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes •' and judgments, that it fesmeth no lefs hard to " fettle a clear and certain notion thereof than to " make a. portrait of Proteus, or to define the t: figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth " in pat allufion to a... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 430 pages
...fhapes, fo many poftures, fo many " garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes " and judgments, that it feemeth no lefs hard to " fettle a clear and...certain notion thereof than to " make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the " figure of the fleeting ajj. Sometimes it lieth /* in pat allufion to a... | |
 | William Seward - 1796 - 418 pages
...fhapes, fo many poftures, fo many " garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes " and judgments, that it feemeth no lefs hard to " fettle a clear and...certain notion thereof than to ** make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the " figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth " in pat allufion to a known... | |
 | William Seward - 1798 - 536 pages
...fhapes, fo many poftures, fo many *? garb?, fo variou(ly apprehended by feveral " eyes and judgments, that it feemeth no lefs ** hard to fettle a clear...certain notion ** thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, " or to define the figure of the fleeting air. ** Sometimes it lieth in pat allufion to a... | |
 | 1802 - 308 pages
...many ihapes, fo many poftnres, fo many garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judgments, -that it feemeth no lefs hard to fettle a clear and...certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allulion to a known... | |
 | William Seward - 1804 - 492 pages
...fo " varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judg" ments, 9 " ments, tint it feefteth no lef»hard to fettle a " clear and certain notion thereof than to make a « portrait of frdtefrs, or to define the figure of "the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allu" fion to a known... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometiaies it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
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... no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. 
