 | 1825 - 712 páginas
..." It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 páginas
...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... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 páginas
...description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in s,o maay shapes, so many fWStureis, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by, several...judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle On clear and certain notions thereof, than to, make a portrait of Proteus, or to:defiae the figure... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 páginas
...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 notiín thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 páginas
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and jugements, rs." He then called to the boy, " What would you give, my not! in thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 712 páginas
...description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 540 páginas
...description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 668 páginas
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and j udgments, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 páginas
...description, It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, thnn to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...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... | |
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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... 
