 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1769 - 476 pages
...caufes may *' be affigned fo differing, as not to agree *' in any thing, unlefs in their being all of "them probable enough ; I have often *' found fuch...pofitively of very " few things* except matter of fadt. And " when I venture to deliver any thing by *' way of opinion, I mould, if it were not " for... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1778 - 514 pages
...feveral caufes may be afiigned, fo differing, as not to agree in any thing, unlefs in their being all of them probable enough, I have often found fuch difficulties...thofe difficulties, that I dare fpeak confidently and poKti-vely of very few things, except matters of fadt. And when 1 venture to deliver any thing by way... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1815 - 314 pages
...of my own disahility to sur" mount those difficulties, that I dare speak confidently "and positively of very few things, except matter of "fact. And when...venture to deliver any thing by way " of opinion, I should, if it were not for mere shame, speak " yet more diffidently than I have been wont to do. Nor... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 336 pages
...sensible of my own disability to surmount those difficulties, that I dare speak confidently and positively of very few things, except matter of fact. And when...venture to deliver any thing by way of opinion, I should, if it were not for mere shame, speak yet more diffidently than I have been wont to do. Nor... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - History - 1970 - 188 pages
...these difficulties, that I dare speak confidently and positively of very few things, except of matters of fact. And when I venture to deliver any thing, by way of opinion, I should, if it were not for mere shame, speak yet more diffidently than I have been wont to do.40 To... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...those difficulties, that I dare speak confidently and positively of very few things, except of matters of fact. And when I venture to deliver any thing, by way of opinion, I should, if it were not for mere shame, speak yet more diffidendy than I have been wont to do/'7 He... | |
 | Robert Boyle - Philosophy - 2005 - 521 pages
...those Difficulties, that I dare speak confidently and positively of very few things, except of Matters of fact. And when I venture to deliver any thing by way of Opinion, I should, if it were not for meer shame, speak yet more diffidently than I have been wont to do.a This... | |
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I dare speak confidently and positively of very few things, except matter of fact. And when I venture to deliver any thing by way of opinion, I should, if it were not for mere shame, speak yet more diffidently than I have been wont to do. 