 | David Hume - 1807 - 552 Seiten
...meeting any thing to answer his expectations. On his return, he published an account of the country, full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were...attempted to be imposed on the credulity of .mankind.* THE same year, sir Francis Drake and sir John Hawkins undertook a more important expedition against... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - 550 Seiten
...meeting any thing to answer his expectations. On his return, he published an account of the country, full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were...attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind k. THE same year, Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins undertook a more important expedition against... | |
 | John Aikin - 1813 - 720 Seiten
...rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana, &c.," 410., 1596, which RAL RAL Hume stigmatizes as being « full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were...attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind." Sir Walter had so far regained the good opinion of the Queen, that he had a naval command in the expedition... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 440 Seiten
...meeting any thing to answer his expectations. On his return he published an account of the country, full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were...attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind 30. The same year, sir Francis Drake and sir John Hawkins undertook a more important expedition against... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 492 Seiten
...inclined to think that his belief was, in the main, sincere. When Hume pays that his narrative " is full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were...attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind," le not only speaks in ignorance of the facts of the case, but forgets that the man whom he.ihus coarsely... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 Seiten
...Account of Guiana defended. HUME has attacked Raleigh's Account of Guiana in a manner which evinces clearly that, with his constitutional indolence, he...on the credulity of mankind." For this sentence he quotes the respectable authority of Camden ; but in turning to that writer (Life and Reign of Elizabeth,... | |
 | John Barrow - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...his return," says Hume, " he published an account of the * Tytler, from Discovery of Guiana. country, full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were...attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind." But, worse than all the rest, was the coldness of the Queen, who remained inexorable. Unable to make... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 Seiten
...vulgarly and disingenuously stigmatized by Hume, in the same page with the foregoing quotation, as " full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were...attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind." If every blunder of judgment were vilified with expressions thus coarse and intemperate, what epithets... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1846 - 384 Seiten
...safely regained their vessels at Trinidad. Such is a brief outline of a narrative which Hume* says is " full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were...attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind." That historian's bias against the brave and unfortunate Raleigh is manifest to every reader of his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana : this production Hume has very unjustly characterised as ' It would appear that he now regained the queen's favour, since wu find him holding, in the •ame year,... | |
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On his return, he published an account of the country, full of the grossest and most palpable lies that were ever attempted to be imposed on the credulity of mankind... 
