 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 538 páginas
...In other respects, they seemed of another world :—" Whatever with" draws us," says Dr. Johnson, " from the power " of our senses; whatever makes the...the " distant, or the future, predominate over the pre" sent, advances us in the dignity of rational be" ings." It would be difficult to point out any,... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 544 páginas
...other respects, they seemed of another world : — " Whatever with" draws us," says Dr. Johnson, " from the power " of our senses ; whatever makes the...the " distant, or the future, predominate over the pre" sent, advances us in the dignity of rational be" ings." It would be difficult to point out any,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 páginas
...will join, because it would have procured us more of Johnson's most delightful species of writing; and whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future...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 any ground... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 páginas
...Tour, p. 339. would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...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 any ground... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 páginas
...connected with a period of time and a race of beings long since passed away. Dr. Johnson observes, that " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...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 any ground... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 páginas
...connected with a period of time and a race of beings loijg since passed away. Dr. Johnson observes, that " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...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 any ground... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 438 páginas
...local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...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 any ground... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 páginas
...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends," he continues, ube such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent...unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wis• Fancy's plume. — Orig. f Pleasures of Imagination, v. 567, 604, with the exclusion of v. 571,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 páginas
...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may...is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain VOL. IX. I. of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow among the ruins of... | |
 | Luke Booker - 1825 - 190 páginas
...devote his time uselessly in pacing the ground whither we now lead him.—But " far from me and from friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...is little to be envied, whose Patriotism would not gain force upon the Plain of Marathon, or whose Piety would not grow warmer among the Ruins of Iona."f... | |
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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. 
