 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1829 - 376 pàgines
...luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thfhking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent... | |
 | 1829 - 296 pàgines
...thought that whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, or makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking heings.* His was no frigid philosophy, no hahitual devotion ; his heart was warm, his soul was sincere,... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pàgines
...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 im in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my frrend be that frigid These unhappy exiles... | |
 | 1846 - 728 pàgines
...silence. NAUTICAL SKETCHES. — No. V. Th<t Soldier Admiral Monk. The Commonwealth battles at Sea, §-c. "Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity cf thinking beings." JOHNSON. the memory. They are offered as mere outlines, with here and there a... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1833 - 388 pàgines
...the sublimity of faith. " Whatever," says the British moralist, " withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."f And when * Foster. \ Tour to the Hebrides. lona. \ we speak of faith, we refer to a principle... | |
 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 pàgines
...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..." predominate over the present, advances us in the dig" nity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my " friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pàgines
...which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, — whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings...future predominate over the present, advances us in the disunity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends bo such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... | |
 | 1868 - 738 pàgines
...island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence aavngc clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings...over the present — advances us in the dignity of think- • ing beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us... | |
 | Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1839 - 1038 pàgines
...OBEYED, AND HE WENT OUT, NOT ENOWING WHITHBR H« WEXT. IT is remarked by an eminent moral writer,1 " that whatever withdraws . us from the power of our senses,...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.1 The assertion is unquestionably true; and when extended to embrace the relations which men... | |
 | 1839 - 394 pàgines
...poetry. " Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings." Sometimes, no doubt, poetry openly assumes the garb of morality, but it is generally... | |
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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 being?. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... 
