 | James Boswell - 1821 - 418 pages
...the new edition of the Biographia Britannica, but had declined it ; which he afterwards said to me he would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would...whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predo. minate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinkingbeings. Far from me, and from... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1821 - 636 pages
...another world : — " Whatever withdraws us," says doctor Johnson, " from the power of our senses j " whatever makes the past, the distant, or the " future,...predominate over the present, advances us " in the dignity of rational beings." It would be difficult to point out any, to whom this observation can be... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1822 - 434 pages
...nature, with the most exalted wisdom, and the most heroic virtue. It was well observed by Johnson, that " to abstract the mind from all local emotion, would...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... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 pages
...teeth To see thee rend the pageants of hie throne." — v. 583, 4. euliarities of bis style, — " to abstract the mind from all local emotion, would...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends," he continues, " be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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... | |
 | David Stewart - 1822 - 658 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...future, predominate over the present, advances us in dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, aud from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as would conduct... | |
 | 1822 - 682 pages
...said that " to abstract the mind from all- local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavored, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." And yet, fresh as our country is, we are not entirely without those impressive... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 546 pages
...abstract the mind from all local emotions," says Johnson, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...the future, predominate over the present ; advances the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 554 pages
...abstract the mind from all local emotions," says Johnson, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...the future, predominate over the present ; advances the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... | |
 | 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...predominate over the present, advances us " in the scale of rational beings." In whom has the past, the distant, or the future,— or, in other words,... | |
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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 ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over... 
