 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 292 páginas
...would be impossible, ' if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. What' ever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever...distant, or the future, predominate over the present, ad' vances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my ' friends be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 páginas
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 páginas
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over... | |
 | James MacDonald (A.M.), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1811 - 848 páginas
...religion. To. abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...past, the distant, or the future predominate over th» present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and "from my friends be such... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 páginas
...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 SCOTT, ESQ. Lichfield, June £0, 1806. WHAT an insurmountable bar is a... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 512 páginas
...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 SCOTT, ESQ. Lichfield, June 20, 1806. WHAT an insurmountable bar is a frame... | |
 | 1811 - 1054 páginas
...were ," endeavoured, and it would be " fooliih if it were possible. What" everwithdiaws us from die power •" of our senses; whatever makes " the past, the distant, or the fu" lure predominate over the pre» " sent, advances us in the dignity " of thinking beings. Far be... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1812 - 374 páginas
...though far inferior to the songs of other times, it was not useless. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of " our senses ; whatever...over the " present, advances us in the dignity of think" ing beings."* The poetry and sceuldachs of even those degenerate times had this happy effect;... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 páginas
...mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; and would be foolish, if :t were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power...future, predominate over the present, advances us to the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 484 páginas
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over... | |
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. 
