 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...  Ecclesiastical history, a course of lectures - Page 498by William Jones - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 432 pages
...present, 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...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...present, 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...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments: some care was necessary for ourselves.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...present, 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,...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue, The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or... | |
 | W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 pages
...philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent and " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nilied by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man " is little...plain of Marathon, or whose " piety would not grow warmer among the ruins " of lona." And who but must feel emotion of such a nature — who but must... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...present, advances us in the digpity of thinking heings." " That man," he continues, " is little to he envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon...plain .of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ;" and, in the same strain of sentiment, I would ask, who could traverse... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1817 - 732 pages
...in the spirit of a true-born Englishman, mutatis mutandis, from the same great writer, "That Briton is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Waterloo." How did I wish at that moment for the pencil, not of a Poet of the modern school,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...present, 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...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves.... | |
 | John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved...envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ! " After a fortnight's... | |
 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 530 pages
...philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent and: " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nitied by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man " is little...plain of Marathon, or whose " piety would not grow warmer among the ruins " of lonai" And who> but- must feel emotion of *uch a nature—who but must... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...landing upon the island of Icolmkill! " Far from me, and from my friends," says he, " be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved...been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." That this frigid philosophy was a stranger to the soul of Wilson, we have his own declaration in evidence;... | |
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