 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 820 pàgines
...mind from all local Mon»«tie' motion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; ' and it would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 828 pàgines
...mind from all local Monmie emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; ' " ' and it would-be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us...past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 372 pàgines
...from all local Monatiic emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; A"ti4n '"** and it would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes <he past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances ив т the dignity of... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1820 - 410 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 pàgines
...religion. 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1820 - 570 pàgines
..."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...past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from us, and from our friends, be such... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pàgines
...when it is used with propriety, for it gives you two ideas for one ; — conveys the meaning more ever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 418 pàgines
...declined it ; which he afterwards said to me he would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pàgines
...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...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... | |
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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. 
