| 1842 - 536 pągines
...Johnson to both Sir Thomas Wilde and Mr. Erie : "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 Harris - 1842 - 504 pągines
...would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona — that to abstract the mind from local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible," how deep and lasting the impression calculated to be produced on a people who had to walk daily amidst... | |
| James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 pągines
...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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pągines
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pągines
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 558 pągines
...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 cower of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 480 pągines
...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 Dower of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,... | |
| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pągines
...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... | |
| JAMES BOSWELL - 1892
...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 cower of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,... | |
| Samuel John Stone - 1897 - 406 pągines
...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... | |
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