 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...  Apparitions: a Narrative of Facts - Page 16by Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1874 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 pages
...nations. There are no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related or believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as...diffused, could become universal only by its truth." This is the language of the hypochondriac, not of the moralist, who in the exercise of a sober judgment... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 pages
...nations. There are no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related or believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as...diffused, could become universal only by its truth." This is the language of the hypochondriac, not of the moralist, who in the exercise of a sober judgment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 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, could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 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 never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 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, could not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which Ȥ truth1 ; those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - 1836 - 340 pages
...more, 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 342 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...testimony of all ages and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom appantions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion,...universal only by its truth ; those, that never heard of one another, would never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That... | |
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