 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...  A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French - Sayfa 363Voltaire tarafından - 1824Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 sayfa
...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...seemeth 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 sayfa
...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...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Porteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
 | 1821 - 400 sayfa
...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...• of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 418 sayfa
...shapes, so many postures, somar.y garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, thut it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 sayfa
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to n.ake a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 sayfa
...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...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 482 sayfa
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sayfa
...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...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | James Boaden - 1825 - 646 sayfa
...for Dr. Barrow's definition of facetiousness : — " It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, that it " seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat al•• lusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a • • trivial saying, or in forging... | |
 | 1825 - 712 sayfa
...their endeavours to explain it. " It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously...a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a pourtraict of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. — Its ways are unaccountable... | |
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