 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 - Side 99af Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 sider
...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 errour, and sometimes contrarieties of errour, take each others... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 sider
...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 errour, and sometimes contrarieties of errour, take each other's... | |
 | Paul Woodruff - 2001 - 260 sider
...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 .... How canst thou beg for life, says Homers hero to his captive, when thou knowest that... | |
 | 1843 - 452 sider
...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... | |
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