 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 trang
...incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of seeing things out of sight is local, and commonly useless. It is a breach of the common order of things, without any visible reason or perceptible benefit. It if ascribed only to a people very little enlightened ; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 trang
...incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of seeing things out of sight is local and commonly useless. It is a breach of the common order of things, without any visible reason or perceptible benefit. It is ascribed only to a people very little enlightened ; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 trang
...incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of seeing things out of sight is local, and commonly useless. It is a breach of the common order of things, without any visible reason or perceptible benefit. It is ascribed only to a people very little enlightened ; and... | |
 | 1977 - 704 trang
...Western Islands of Scotland' (1775; 'Works' 9 vols. Oxford, 1825) vol. IX pp. 104-8: 'It is ascribed only to a people very little enlightened; and among them, for the most part, to the mean and ignorant.' Cf. Patrick Graham 'Sketches of Perthshire' (2nd ed. Edinburgh,... | |
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Strong reasons for incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of seeing things out of sight is local, and commonly useless. It is a breach of the common order of things, without any visible reason or perceptible benefit. It is ascribed only to a people... 
