 | 1828 - 586 pàgines
...from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be fuolish if it wore possible Whatever withdraws us from the power of our...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be mich frigid phih>*onhy, as... | |
 | 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,...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual release, and... | |
 | 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;...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important to... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 pàgines
...and, let us hope, ponder on the good doctor's words: — To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as... | |
 | 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;...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 the force of this... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - 1994 - 454 pàgines
...1978). 42 James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found, introd. Lewis Leary (New York: Capricorn, 1961)209,118. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.43 Johnson pleads for a "predominating]" cognitio intellectiva which... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pàgines
...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...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may... | |
 | Harriet Guest - 2000 - 362 pàgines
...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...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as... | |
 | Adolphe Pictet - 2000 - 592 pàgines
...would he willingly compromise candour so much as to allow that it is altogether devoid of merit. " Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings ;" and what can be more conducive to this end than the study of man... | |
 | Alicia Chudo - 2000 - 255 pàgines
...Investigations (Wittgenstein): Let's not quibble about words. Philosophy in the Bedroom (Sade): Whatever removes us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the future, or the distant predominant over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.... | |
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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. 
