 | 1878 - 620 pàgines
...except in connection with facts.' He might have added, anticipating the fine remark of Johnson :—' Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses—...future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of thinking beings:'- .. ' And hence the charm historic scones impart; Hence Tiber awes, and... | |
 | 1878 - 646 pàgines
...except in connection with facts.' He might have added, anticipating the fine remark of Johnson : — ' Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of thinking beings :' — ' And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes, and... | |
 | 1878 - 618 pàgines
...except in connection with facts.' He might have added, anticipating the fine remark of Johnson : — ' Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of thinking beings:'- -And ' And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes, and... | |
 | 1878 - 630 pàgines
...except in connection with facts.' He might have added, anticipating the fine remark of Johnson : — ' Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of thinking bejngs:'' And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes, and Avon... | |
 | 1878 - 54 pàgines
...make men nobler, to bind citizens into closer union and stir them to broader patriotism. Johnson said, "Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present advances us ia the dignity of thinking beings." Save everything that tends to that. Search out aud gather up all... | |
 | Richard H H. Holmes - 1878 - 316 pàgines
...Castle. A CONCISE WISTORY, n RICHARD HOLMES. " Whatever withdraws ua from the power of our Reuses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances ua in the dignity of thinking beings."—Dr. Johnson, THE ARMES OP THE TOWNE OF PONTFKACT,—1585.... | |
 | Sir Theodore Martin - 1879 - 560 pàgines
...of all his efforts in this direction the idea lay which has been finely expressed by Dr. Johnson : ' Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of human beings.' That the arrangement of Museums of Art as well as of Science should be such... | |
 | Sir Theodore Martin - 1879 - 544 pàgines
...finely expressed by Dr. Johnson : ' 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 human beings.' That the arrangement of Museums of Art as well as of Science should be such... | |
 | 1879 - 684 pàgines
...their love a sword of steel. " ' Whatever," says Samuel Johnson, ' withdraws us from the power of the senses — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present — tdrances us in the dignity of human beings." From this point of view, therefore, u well as from... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1879 - 410 pàgines
...the better world must have an ennobling influence upon the soul Johnson was not wrong when he said, "Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present exalts us in the dignity of thinking beings." But that is precisely what frequent unsettlements in... | |
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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... 
