 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 314 pàgines
...sentence ? " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if 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... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pàgines
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of OUT senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | John Britton - 1832 - 198 pàgines
...moralist, Dr. Johnson, " 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 far from my friends, be such... | |
 | 1832 - 406 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...the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, tho distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 pàgines
...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 pàgines
...ALISON 1 Samuel Johnson's dictum, in the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), reads: 'Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant',... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 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 far from my friends be such... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 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... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 1096 pàgines
...not be amiss to quote Johnson. In A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, Johnson remarks that "whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."31 It is, I think, a mark of wisdom to recognize... | |
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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. 
