 | 1838 - 274 pàgines
...Johnson remarks, in very characteristic phrase, that to " abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible."2 The charm of such associations is indeed extensively felt; and perhaps no lover of literature... | |
 | Bolton CORNEY - 1838 - 280 pàgines
...Johnson remarks, in very characteristic phrase, that to " abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible."2 The charm of such associations is indeed extensively felt; and perhaps no lover of literature... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 pàgines
...knowledge, and the blessngs of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be mpossible 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,... | |
 | 1868 - 738 pàgines
...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 makes the past, the distant, or the future... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1839 - 228 pàgines
...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions 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,... | |
 | 1839 - 420 pàgines
...magnum et venerabile nomen ! " To abstract the mind from all local emotion," says the moralist, " would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1840 - 476 pàgines
...benefit 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 makes the past, the distant, or the future... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pàgines
...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 powerof our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pàgines
...benefits of knowledge, a;id 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 makes the past, the distant, or the future... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1841 - 410 pàgines
...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 makes the past, the distant, or the future... | |
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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... 
