| David Stewart - 1822 - 658 pages
...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, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in dignity of thinking beings. Far from me,... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 pages
...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, — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from... | |
| 1822 - 682 pages
...local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavored, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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." And yet,... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pages
...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, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 546 pages
...says Johnson, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present ; advances the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me... | |
| Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1822 - 434 pages
...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, — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 554 pages
...says Johnson, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present ; advances the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me... | |
| Charles Butler - 1822 - 546 pages
...catholics now form four-fifths of the whole population of Ireland. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " 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 scale of rational beings." In whom... | |
| Charles Butler - 1822 - 544 pages
...catholics now form four-fifths of the whole population of Ireland. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " 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 scale of rational beings." In whom... | |
| Charles Butler - 1822 - 538 pages
...In other respects, they seemed of another world :—" Whatever with" draws us," says Dr. Johnson, " from the power " of our senses; whatever makes the past, the " distant, or the future, predominate over the pre" sent, advances us in the dignity of rational be" ings." It... | |
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