 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 σελίδες
...CVII, E OF or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the Plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Lona.' Yet Marathon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 σελίδες
...friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow wanner among the ruins of lona /"* Upon hearing that Sir Allan M'Lean was arrived, the inhabitants,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 σελίδες
...friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....force upon 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 σελίδες
...friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plajn of Marathon* or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins oflona. We came too late to... | |
 | James MacDonald (A.M.), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1811 - 848 σελίδες
...my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Y y 2 Some Some of the fossils of Icolmkill deserve notice.—... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 σελίδες
...friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 σελίδες
...friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....force upon 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... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton - 1812 - 90 σελίδες
...crimes have been perpetrated, will always excite kindred emotions of admiration or horror: And if " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Joua," we may with equal... | |
 | 1812 - 778 σελίδες
...distant, or the future predominate over the pre*ent, advances u» in the diguity of thinking beings. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plan of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." There is a species... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 492 σελίδες
...friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona! " * * Had our Tour produced nothing else but this sublime... | |
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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. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may... 
