 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 - 1874 - 584 Seiten
...apprehends what it is by acquaintance, that I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thin™ *o versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes,...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait o;" Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 Seiten
...eminent divine, it occupies a very considerable portion of the realm of wit. He says, " Wit is a thing BO versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes,...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it scemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 Seiten
...the eminent divine, it occupies a very considerable portion of the realm of wit. He says, " Wit 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... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1876 - 428 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... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 Seiten
...one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed with me, and be my love. The Nymph's Reply.— By Raleigh. If judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 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 seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 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... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 Seiten
...better apprehends this by acquaintance than I oan inform him by description. It is a thing, indeed, 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 geemeth no less hard... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 328 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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