 The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 99by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...author, is to fhew how much other commentators have corrupted »nd obfcured him. The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controverfy,...motion without progrefs. Thus fometimes truth and error, and fometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's place by reciprocal invafion. The tide... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...author, is to fliow how much other commentators have corrupted and obfcured him. The , opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controverfy,...motion without progrefs. Thus fometimes truth and error, and fometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's place by reciprocal invafion. The tide... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. Thus sometimes truth and error, and sometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's place... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...author, is to {hew how much other .commentators have corrupted and obfcured him. The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controverfy,...motion without progrefs. Thus fometimes truth and error, and fometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's place by reciprocal invafion. The tide... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception ,in remoter times. Thus, the human mind is kept i"n motion without progress, Thus-, sometimes,, truth and error, and sometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. Thus sometimes truth and error, and sometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's place... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. Thus sometimes truth and error, and sometimes contrarieties of error, take each others place... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and vise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. Thus sometimes truth and error, and sometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's place... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. Thus sometimes truth ainl error, and sometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. Thus sometimes truth and error, and sometimes contrarieties of error, take each other's place... | |
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