 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 pàgines
...be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever_wjthdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the...the future, predominate over the present, advances ns in the dignity of Hiirjjini; ^fig"Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as... | |
 | William Linton - 1862 - 174 pàgines
...some desire to record its whereabouts : to live in the minds and sympathies of after generations. " Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of thinking beings ;" and surely the resolves of the living to be known to generations yet unborn... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 pàgines
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored, and foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us...distant, or the future predominate over the present, elevates us in the dignity of 200 SELECTIONS FROM VARIOrS SOURCES. thinking beings. Far from me and... | |
 | Alban Butler - 1866 - 512 pàgines
...feelings, they abounded ; in other respects they seemed of another world. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...future, predominate over the present, advances us to the dignity of human beings." It would be difficult to point out persons to whom this can be better... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1866 - 354 pàgines
...impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws n. D us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominant over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from mo and my friends... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Mrs. J. Sadlier - 1869 - 622 pàgines
...of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - 1870 - 630 pàgines
...of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent... | |
 | 1873 - 754 pàgines
...the mind from .all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be fooli,!i if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the...past, the distant, or the future predominate over the presov. advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy... | |
 | Adamnan (st, abbot of Hy.) - 1875 - 220 pàgines
...the Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...the future predominate over the present, advances us to the dignity of consistent with the Reformation movement in Scotland." One last observation on the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1877 - 382 pàgines
...with a great English philosopher, that "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 scale of rational beings/' There are, indeed, matter-of-fact persons, who will call in question the... | |
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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... 
