 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1840 - 286 pàgines
...endeavoured, and would he foolish, if it were possihle. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our •enses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the diguity of thinking heings. Far from me and from my friends he such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1841 - 410 pàgines
...island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings...whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future oredominate over the present, advances us in the dignity No time for matin or for mass, And the sounds... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion woul'i be impossible if it were endeavoured, aud passed away ; I belli;*. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1848 - 348 pàgines
...possible. "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distaut, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinkins; beings. Far from me and from my friends be such rigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 414 pàgines
...island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings...whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future oredominate over the present, advances us in the dignity No time for matin or for mass, And the sounds... | |
 | Thomas Whytehead - 1845 - 204 pàgines
...recover lost truths again and again by the costly method of experiment. It has been truly said that "whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of rational beings :" and this is the object of the Collegiate system as placed in the midst... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 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 think ing beings. Far from me, and from m> friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent... | |
 | 1846 - 400 pàgines
...ridicule, but still its influence is pleasing, and its moral effect beneficial: for " whatever abstracts us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking heings." But to the Christian, music will bring the remembrance of those declarations of Scripture,... | |
 | 1846 - 722 pàgines
...abounded. la other respects, they seemed of another world. " Whatever withdraws us," says Dr. Johnson, "from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of rational beings." It would be difficult to point out any to whom this observation can be better applied... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1848 - 906 pàgines
...which he gives the more harmonious Latin name lona ? ' Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, exalts us in the scale of rational beings.' " That the culture of the poetic science, as of every other,... | |
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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... 
