 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...  The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Sida 221826Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1790 - 694 sidor
...garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judgements, that it feemeth no lefs hard to fettle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteui, or to define the figure of the Heeling air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allufion to a known... | |
 | William Seward - 1795 - 684 sidor
...varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes •' and judgments, that it fesmeth no lefs hard to " fettle a clear and certain notion thereof than to " make a. portrait of Proteus, or to define the t: figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth " in pat allufion to a known ftory, or in feafonable... | |
 | William Seward - 1804 - 492 sidor
...varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judg" ments, 9 " ments, tint it feefteth no lef»hard to fettle a " clear and certain notion thereof than to make a « portrait of frdtefrs, or to define the figure of "the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allu" fion to a known... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 sidor
...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...several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less Lard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sidor
...better appre-> bends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seem-1 eth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 sidor
...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 judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 sidor
...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 judgement*, tions, Sir, the desire of augmenting them grows stronger 178i in proportion to the advance... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 sidor
...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...settle a clear and certain notion thereof, — than to define the figure of the fleeting air." * The Author of the Essay on the humqn Understanding, in his... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 sidor
...belter apprehends wh.it it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. . It it, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it scemclh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 sidor
...many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than :o male a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat... | |
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