 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
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 261 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 setUe a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a... | |
 | 1846
...sens«s — theie are alive all around us. — The Token. HOGG'S WEEKLY INSTRUCTOR. WIT. Wit is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, BO many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 391 Seiten
...shapes, so many postures, and 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. Sometime... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 391 Seiten
...shapes, so many postures, and 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. Sometime... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851
...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 seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854
...shapes, so many postures, and 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 387 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... | |
 | HENRY REED - 1855
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 776 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... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856
...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,...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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