| Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 338 pągines
...own time, remain as he left them. On entering them, who does not remember his own grand sentence ? " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ! Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
| Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 pągines
...own time, remain as he left them. On entering them, who does not remember his own grand sentence ? " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ! Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
| 1832 - 406 pągines
...of so striking an appearance, nor so many private houses which may rival even the palaces of Rome. " 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... | |
| John Britton - 1832 - 198 pągines
...spark from apathy itself. " To abstract the mind," says the stern and eloquent moralist, Dr. Johnson, " 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... | |
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 368 pągines
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of 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 us from the power of our senses, — whatever... | |
| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pągines
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of 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 us from the power of our senses, whatever... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1833 - 800 pągines
...Kings," instead of "gnashed his teeth To sec thee rend the pageants of his throne."— v. 583-1 Q2 844 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... | |
| 1834 - 536 pągines
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits »f knowledge, and the blessings of 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 us from the power of our senses ; whatever... | |
| Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 pągines
...savage clans and roving " barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the " blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all " local emotion would be impossible, if it were endea" voured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. " Whatever withdraws us from the power of... | |
| 1835 - 272 pągines
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of 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 us from the power of our senses; whatever... | |
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