 ... 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 which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Σελίδα 317των Samuel Johnson - 1806Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
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...that "the man is not 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 lona ;" so patriot and Christian may well repair with interest to " Cuthbert's islet grey," and, musing... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A.. Shaaber - 1959 - 462 σελίδες
...That man 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 lona! The net result of the journey was to confirm Johnson in his opinion that Macpherson's Ossian was a... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1973 - 639 σελίδες
...That man 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 lona" As a political writer, his productions are more distinguished by subtlety of disquisition, poignancy... | |
 | Alice O. Howell - 1988 - 199 σελίδες
..."That man 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 lona." We walked pensively southward and then turned west along the road to the Hill of the Angels from which... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 262 σελίδες
...That man 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 lona" (journey 148). Boswell quotes this passage reverently "as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 266 σελίδες
...That man 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 lona? (p. 148) With its references to the past and the classics, this writing exemplifies a form of that... | |
 | Ron Ferguson - 1998 - 192 σελίδες
...observed: That man 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 lona. Another visitor was Sir Walter Scott, who described the inhabitants as being in the last state of poverty... | |
 | Harriet Guest - 2000 - 350 σελίδες
...virtue. The man 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 lona." The extreme admiration Banks and Boswell felt for this passage was, I imagine, a response to the rapidity,... | |
 | Dustin Griffin - 2005 - 328 σελίδες
..."That man is little to lx- envied, whose patriotism would not gain force u|xm the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona" (Journey to the Western I1les of Scotland, ed. Mary Ijtscelles [New Haven, 1971], 148). 35 In other... | |
 | Scottish Mountaineering Club - 1913
..." That man 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 lona." Less often quoted is the delightful account of the Doctor's arrival at Lochbuie—" where we found... | |
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