 That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, 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, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed....  The Quarterly Review - Page 209edited by - 1863Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...seen no more. " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac), 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, among whom apparitions of die dead are not related and believed.... | |
 | William Drennan - Irish poetry - 1848 - 180 pages
...vi.) : — " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " 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, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed.... | |
 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...more/' ' "That the dead are seen no more," replied Imlac, " 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, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed."... | |
 | Popular literature - 1851 - 566 pages
...no more." " That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, " 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, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related or believed.... | |
 | John Whitehead - Methodist Church - 1852 - 582 pages
...seen no more." " That the dead are seen no more (said Imlac) 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, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...appearances. " That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, 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, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed.... | |
 | Books - 1854 - 382 pages
...of the philosopher in "Rasselas," that it is more bold than wise to undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations, that the dead are seen no more. Philosophers of the school of Ennemoser* — at once the most credulous... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1856 - 80 pages
...Nature.' t " ' That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, ' I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. » » » This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could hecome universal only... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 688 pages
...supernaturals. Says Dr. Johnson : " That the dead are seen no more, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages and of all nations That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence ; and some who... | |
 | John William Cole - Theater - 1859 - 416 pages
...says, in " Rasselas:" — "That the dead are seen no 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, amongst whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed.... | |
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