 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 σελίδες
...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 the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends," he continues,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 546 σελίδες
...the mind from all local emotions," says Johnson, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present ; advances the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | 1822 - 682 σελίδες
...to abstract the mind from all- local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavored, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." And yet, fresh as our country is, we are not... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 554 σελίδες
...the mind from all local emotions," says Johnson, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present ; advances the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1822 - 434 σελίδες
...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 the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid... | |
 | David Stewart - 1822 - 658 σελίδες
...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 the present, advances us in dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, aud from my friends, be such frigid... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 538 σελίδες
...In other respects, they seemed of another world :—" Whatever with" draws us," says Dr. Johnson, " from the power " of our senses; whatever makes the...over the pre" sent, advances us in the dignity of rational be" ings." It would be difficult to point out any, to whom this observation can be better... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 546 σελίδες
...catholics now form four-fifths of the whole population of Ireland. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses ; " whatever...the distant, or the " future, predominate over the present, advances us " in the scale of rational beings." In whom has the past, the distant, or the... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 544 σελίδες
...catholics now form four-fifths of the whole population of Ireland. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses; " whatever...the distant, or the " future, predominate over the present, advances us " in the scale of rational beings." In whom has the past, the distant, or the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 σελίδες
...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 us from the power of our senses, dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent use of metaphorical... | |
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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. 
