 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
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 578 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 - 1900 - 928 Seiten
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, judgments, that it seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, ¡than to_ make... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 644 Seiten
...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 portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquain'ance 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 seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 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 - 1903 - 586 Seiten
...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...notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 582 Seiten
...many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it leemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 Seiten
...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 10 make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - 350 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... | |
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