 | English literature - 1790 - 542 pages
...rarioully apprehended by i'cvenlcyes and judgments, that it icemeth no Icfs hard to. fetde a clesr and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pr.t al Union to a known ftory, or in feafonnhle application of a tiivial faying, or in terming an... | |
 | English literature - 1790 - 694 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1791 - 608 pages
...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...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat aliufion to a known ftoiy, or in feafonable application of a trivial faying, or in forging an appofite... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1795 - 684 pages
...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 - Anecdotes - 1796 - 418 pages
...fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes " and judgments, that it feemeth no lefs hard to " fettle a clear and certain notion thereof than to ** make...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth " in pat allufion to a known ftory, or in feafonable " application of a trivial faying, or in forging an ""... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1796 - 430 pages
...fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes " and judgments, that it feemeth no lefs hard to " fettle a clear and certain notion thereof than to " make...Proteus, or to define the " figure of the fleeting ajj. Sometimes it lieth /* in pat allufion to a known flory, or in feafonable " application of a trivial... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1798 - 536 pages
...fo variou(ly apprehended by feveral " eyes and judgments, that it feemeth no lefs ** hard to fettle a clear and certain notion ** thereof than to make...of the fleeting air. ** Sometimes it lieth in pat allufion to a known v ftory, or in feafonable application of a trivial f* faying, or in forging an... | |
 | 1802 - 308 pages
...garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judgments, -that it feemeth no lefs hard to fettle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allulion to a known ftory, or in feafonable application of a trivial ikying, or in forging an appofite... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1804 - 492 pages
...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 - 556 pages
...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... 
