 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 páginas
...probability, has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him. ' He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described...not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that dostroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 páginas
...contradict him. ' He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as ho saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and...have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He mcets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his erocodiles devour their prey without tears,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 páginas
...probability, has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him. " He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 páginas
...countrymen, has amused his readers with no romantic absurdities, or incredible fictions. He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described...the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 páginas
...countrymen, has amused his readers with no romantic absurdities, or incredible fictions. He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described...the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 544 páginas
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 | James Boswell - 1885 - 490 páginas
...probability, has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him. " He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 páginas
...probability, has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him. ' He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants3. 'The reader will here find no regions cursed... | |
 | 1899 - 796 páginas
...speculation. Wesley describes things as he saw them. In the first published words of his friend Dr. Johnson, " he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighboring inhabitants." Wesley's humor is of the species donnish, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 páginas
...probability, has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him. " He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described...prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed... | |
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He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination; he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles... 
