 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...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 252by Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Brand, Henry Bourne - Christian antiquities - 1777 - 466 pages
...Incredulity will readily occur. This Faculty of feeing Things out of fight is local, and commonly ufelefs. It is a Breach of the common Order of Things, without...very little enlightened ; and among them, for the moil Part, to the mean and the ignorant. To the Confidence of thefe Objeclions it may be replied, that... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1785 - 718 pages
...readily occur. This faculty is a breach of the common order of things, without any vifihle reafon. It is afcribed only to a people very little enlightened...them, for the moft part, to the mean and the ignorant. To thefe objeftions it may be replied, That by prefumsng to determine what is fit, and wha^ is beneficial,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...He has taken the opportunity of ingrafting 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.' Johnson's Works, ix. 106. 1 ' To the confidence of these objections... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of feeing things out of fight is local, and commonly ufelefs. It is a breach of the common order of things, without any vifible reafon or perceptible benefit. It is afcribtd only to a people very little enlightened; and among them, for the molt part, to the mean and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of feeing things out of fight is local,. and commonly ufclefs. It is a breach of the common order of things, without...them, for the moft part, to the mean and the ignorant. To the confidence of th?fe objections it may be replied, that byprefumingto determine what is fit,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of feeing things out of fight is local, and commonly ufelefs. It is a breach of the common order of things, without...and among, them, for the moft part, to the mean and ignorant. ' . . To the confidence of thefe objections it may be replied, that by prefuming to determine... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...incredulity will readily occur. This faculty of feeing things out of fight is local, and commonly ufelefs.. It is a breach of the common order of things, wit.hout...very little enlightened ; and among • them, for the imoft part, to the mean and ignorant. , To the confidence of thefe objections it may be replied, that... | |
 | Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 170 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 362 pages
...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... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...Breach of the common OrcK-r of Things, without any visihle Reason or perceptible Benefit. It is ascribed only to a People very little enlightened ; and among them, for the most Part, to the ;nean and the ignorant. To the Confidence of these Objections it may be replied,... | |
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