 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
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 544 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 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 tomake a... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - 586 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...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - 364 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...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 Seiten
...it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatileand multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures,...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that if seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a... | |
 | George McKendree Steele - 1889 - 286 Seiten
...marvellous descriptive power, than as a remarkably accurate representation of the subject: " It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, Dr. Barrow's so variously apprehended by several eyes and description, judgments, that it seemeth no... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform mm by description. It is, indeed, place we can meet in, except Heaven, judgments, that it seemed no 1саь hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 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 I no less hard to settle a clear and certain no- ¡ tion thereof, than to... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 Seiten
...many postures,15 and so many garbs,16 — so variously apprehended by 17 several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof 18 than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 19 of the fleeting air.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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...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... | |
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