 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 páginas
...sacred feeling. It is amongst those, of which Johnson finely says, whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Adieu ! LETTER XLIX. WALTER... | |
 | 1839 - 394 páginas
...other. This resource is afforded us by the influences of poetry. " Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings." Sometimes, no doubt, poetry... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 páginas
...of one writer, if they are not checked by public reason, aie compensated by the opposite ones of hi* successor. " Whatever withdraws us from the dominion...whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us m the dignity of thinking beings."* It is not for me to attempt... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - 1848 - 348 páginas
...of all others who hold with the great English moralist, that, "whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, — whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." To an object so important,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1854 - 590 páginas
...excesses of one writer, if they are not checked by public reason, are compensated by the opposite ones of his successor. " Whatever withdraws us from the...whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." * It is not for me to... | |
 | 1864 - 560 páginas
...AIiFKED TENNvSON, DCL, Poet-Laureate. London : Moxon, 1864. " WHATEvER withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of human beings." To render us this service... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1871 - 616 páginas
...excesses of one writer, if the\ are not checked by public reason, are compensated by the opposite qnes of his successor. " Whatever withdraws us from the...whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."* It is not for me to... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1872 - 518 páginas
...as the chief merit is his who first raises the minds of men to the love of any part of knowledgeWhen mental activity is once roused, its direction is easily...whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future predominate over the present, advances «s in the dignity of thinking beings." It is not for me to... | |
 | Geologists' Association - 1879 - 488 páginas
...for our labour will be with us always in all our true work, making us better than we have been, for " Whatever withdraws us from the dominion of the Senses...whatever makes the Past, the Distant, and the Future predominate over the Present, advances us in the dignity of Thinking Beings." (Dr. 8. Johnson, " Tour... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1885 - 390 páginas
...Nothing is more fatal than propter vitam vivendi perdere causas. '' Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future predominate over the passing interests of the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings,"... | |
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It is not for me to attempt an estimate of those exertions for the advancement of knowledge which have arisen from the example and exhortations of Sir William Jones. In all... 
