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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... "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 256
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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How We Found America: Reading Gender Through East-European Immigrant Narratives

Magdalena J. Zaborowska - 1995 - 384 pages
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Maria Kuncewiczowa: monografia dokumentacyjna 1895-1989

Alicja Szałagan - 1995 - 492 pages
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Das Ästhetische als demokratisierendes Prinzip

Alfred Hornung - 1996 - 388 pages
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The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia

Pat Rogers - 1996 - 524 pages
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1995 - 1240 pages
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The High Road: Romantic Tourism, Scotland and Literature, 1720-1820

John Glendening - 1997 - 296 pages
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 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...
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Johnson and Detailed Representation: The Significance of the Classical Sources

William Edinger - 1997 - 114 pages
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology

Karen L. Kilcup - 1997 - 656 pages
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The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard, C.1100-c.1336

Russell Andrew McDonald - 1997 - 316 pages
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