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" This opinion, which perhaps prevails 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 is doubted... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to ... - Page 245
by James Boswell - 1889
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rassclas, I will not maintain that the 'morbid melancholy" in Johnson's constitution may not, perhaps,...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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...their fears.' Notwithstanding my high admiration of Rassclas, I will not maintain that the ' morbid melancholy1 ' in Johnson's constitution may not, perhaps,...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...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 with their tongues, confess it by their fears. "Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet T do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pi-kuali. Dd3 There...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...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 with their tongues, confess it by their fears."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his life; in...
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Rasselas: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...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 with their tongues, confess it by their fears. Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be no...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...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 with their tongues, confess it by their fears."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his life; in...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...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...who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their feais."* This bias towards a belief in supernatural agency, he indulged to the latest period of his...
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Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...universal onlv 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...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...those, that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but ex.s perience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers,...deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears. " Yet I do not mean to add new terrours to those which have already seized upon Pekuah. There can be...
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