| Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 σελίδες
...approve and disapprove in nonsense : you may as well assault an army that is buried in entrenchments. If it affirms any thing, you cannot lay hold of it;...confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well- written piece of nonsense,... | |
| Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 σελίδες
...nonsense : you may as well assault an enemy that is buried in intrenchments. If it affirms anything, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot refute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities,... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 σελίδες
...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 and well- written piece of nonsense... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1870 - 670 σελίδες
...midst of darkness, as to find out what to 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 denieSj you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies... | |
| John Joseph Halcombe - 1874 - 200 σελίδες
...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...confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well written piece of nonsense,... | |
| David Jayne Hill - 1893 - 392 σελίδες
...in 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 and well-written piece of nonsense... | |
| William Holman Hunt - 1905 - 568 σελίδες
...secured by its natural situation against all conquests and attacks. If it affirms anything you cannot get hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities in an elaborate and well written piece of nonsense than in the most abstruse and profound... | |
| William Holman Hunt - 1906 - 566 σελίδες
...secured by its natural situation against all conquests and attacks. If it affirms anything you cannot get hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot confute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities in an elaborate and well written piece of nonsense than in the most abstruse and profound... | |
| Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard - 1907 - 424 σελίδες
...other writings that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted. If it affirms anything, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot refute it. In a word there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 σελίδες
...other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted. If it affirms anything, you cannot lay hold of it ; or if it denies, you cannot refute it. In a word, there are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities... | |
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