 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...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 5071871Full view - About this book
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...so subtle, so " versatile, and so multiform, — appearing in so many "shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs, — so " variously apprehended by several...that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and cer" tain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, " or to define the figure of the fleeting... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...so subtile, so versatile, and so multiform, — appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs, — so variously apprehended by several...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...so subtile, so versatile, and so multiform, — appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs, — so variously apprehended by several...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 474 pages
...by several eyes and judgments, " that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and cer" tain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, " or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime " it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in season" able application of a trivial saying,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...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,...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 296 pages
...so subtle, so versatile, and so multiform — appearing in so many• shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs — so variously apprehended by several...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...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,...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seerneth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...apprehended by sereral eyes and ju-.mciits, that it seciutth no less hud t~> scale a deal and ccru.a notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it Jieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1854 - 472 pages
...so many postures, and so many garbs, — so 'variously apprehended by several eyes and judg' ments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear ' and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of ' Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. '... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...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,...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
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