 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeeda thing so versatileand multiform, appearing >u so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear ami-certain notion thereof, than, to make n portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, " then " 1 can inform mm by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended oy several ' (different) eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...indispensable constituent of satire. I quote Isaac Barrow's celebrated description of it: " Wit," says he, " is a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...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 - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...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 - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, that 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 - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...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...to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than tomake a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...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...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatileand multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures,...variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that if seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
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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... 
