| Joseph Addison - 1922 - 218 str.
...witches, my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions : or rather (to speak my thoughts freely) a thing as witchcraft; but at the same time can give...shall give my reader an account of at large. As I was walkiug 1 with my friend Sir Roger by the side of one of his woods, an old woman applied herself to... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1922 - 310 str.
...as those we call witches? my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions; or rather (to speak my thoughts freely) I believe in general that there...give no credit to any particular instance of it." obliquely, and upon consequence: as a logical consequence coming indirectly. See p. 10. Atheists. Joseph... | |
| Sir Francis Palgrave - 1922 - 500 str.
...the world as those we call witches, my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as witohcraf t; but at the same time can give no credit to any particular instance of it." The article... | |
| Preserved Smith - 1923 - 524 str.
...principle the possibility of witchcraft or magic. It was much the position of Joseph Addison, who said: "I believe in general that there is and has been such...time can give no credit to any particular instance of it."2 Amiel and Froude go too far when they attribute to the humanist a complete and scoffing rationalism.... | |
| William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 str.
...as those we call witches, my mind is divided between the two opposite opinions; or rather, to speak my thoughts freely, I believe in general that there...can give no credit to any particular instance of it. 25 I am engaged in this speculation by s*ome occurrences that I met with yesterday, which I shall give... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1878 - 700 str.
...some real witches, too." Addison, about the same time, wrote, " To speak my thoughts freely, I believe there is and has been such a thing as witchcraft, but at the same time I can give no credit to any particular instance of it." Blackstone, the oracle of English law one hundred... | |
| Joseph Klaits - 1987 - 228 str.
...sides on matters that are indifferent to us, the safest method is to give ourselves up to neither ... I believe in general that there is, and has been such...give no credit to any particular instance of it." The key phrase in this passage is "on matters that are indifferent to us." To the men of Addison's... | |
| 1904 - 852 str.
...Blackstone. speaks with a curious hesitation on the subject of witchcraft: "I believe in general." he says, " that there is and has been such a thing as witchcraft,...can give no credit to any particular instance of it" : (Sperintnr, No. 117; see. too. the remarks of Blackstone, Commentaries. Book IV., c. 4). It is a... | |
| Michael Hunter, Michael Cyril William Hunter - 1995 - 372 str.
...admitting that he could 'give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it', nevertheless continued to aver: 'I believe in general that there is and has been such a thing as Witch-craft'.9 To deny outright the reality of witchcraft was thus a position of doubtful orthodoxy,... | |
| Malcolm Gaskill - 2003 - 400 str.
...magical practices (London, 1705), pp. 220-61, 397. Mf» 3 ^ Witches in society and culture, 1680-1750 I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witch-craft; but at the same tirre can give no Credit to any particular Instance of it. Addison, The Spectator (\4 ]u(y 1711), pp.... | |
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