 If it affirms anything, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and wellwritten piece of nonsense, than in the most...  Faction Detected, by the Evidence of Facts - Seite 165von John Perceval Earl of Egmont - 1743 - 175 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1715 - 332 Seiten
...approve and difapprove in Nonfenfe.You * may as well afTault an Army that is buried * in fntrenchments. If it affirms any thing, * you cannot lay hold of it; or if it denies, c you cannot confute it . In a Word, there ' are greater Depths and Obfcurities, greater * Intricacies... | |
 | 1736 - 824 Seiten
...invilidated — A lours in the midft of Darknefi, as to find out, what to approve or difepprove in Nonfenfc. If it affirms any thing, you cannot lay hold of it*...or if it denies, you cannot confute it. — In a' Word, there arc greater Depths and Obfcuritiel, greater Intricacies and Perplexities, in a well written... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1758 - 668 Seiten
...about it weaker than ano' ther —its queftions admit of no reply : and its affertions are not :o ' be invalidated : if it affirms any thing, you cannot lay hold of it : ' or if it denies, you cannot refute it-.'— «» Art. 2. The Fabrick of the Eye, and the feveral Difordtrs wtuh injure or deftroy... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1789 - 412 Seiten
...prove and difapprove in Nonfenfe. You may ' as well aflault an army that is buried in in' trenchments. If it affirms any thing, you ' cannot lay hold of...it ; or if it denies, you * cannot confute it. In a word, there are ' greater depths and obfcuruies, greater intri • ' cacies and perplexities, in an... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1789 - 404 Seiten
...difapprove in Nonfenfe. You may * as-well aflault an army that is buried in in'• frenchments; • If it affirms any thing, you 'cannot lay hold of it; or if it denies, you * cannot corifyte it. In a word, there are ' greater 'depth'i and obfcurities, greater intri • ' cacies and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 Seiten
...approve and disapprove in nonsense: you may as well assault an army that is buried in intrenchments. If it affirms any thing, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 376 Seiten
...approve and disapprove in nonsense : you may as well assault an army that is buried in intrenchments. If it affirms any thing, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 284 Seiten
...nonsense : you may as well assault an army that is buried in intrenchments. . If it affirms anything, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 Seiten
...nonsense ; you may as well assault an army that is buried in entrenchments. If it affirms anything, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 684 Seiten
...approve and disapprove in nonsense : you may as well assault an army that is buried in intrenchments. If it affirms any thing, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate... | |
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