 Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously...  All the Year Round - Seite 3991891Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1821 - 400 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 418 Seiten
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, that I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, somar.y garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, thut it seemeth no less hard... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 Seiten
...them grows stronger in proportion to the advance in acquisition ; as motion is accelerated indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended oy several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 482 Seiten
...of augmenting them grows stronger in proportion to the advance in acquisition ; as motion is indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...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... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 524 Seiten
...comprehensive that ever was elaborated : — " It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in BO many shapes, so many postures, so many 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... | |
 | 1825 - 712 Seiten
...analysis. The greatest masters of it have failed in their endeavours to explain it. " It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...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... | |
 | James Boaden - 1825 - 650 Seiten
...for Dr. Barrow's definition of facetiousness : — " It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, 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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 Seiten
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...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... | |
 | 1826 - 384 Seiten
...sermon, against foolish talking and jesting, will furnish a pleasing specimen. " Wit," says lie, " is a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...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... | |
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