 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 pàgines
...connection with facts." He might have added, anticipating the fine remark of Johnson at lona : — " 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 pàgines
...connection with facts." He might have added, anticipating the fine remark of Johnson at lona : — " 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... | |
 | 1885 - 784 pàgines
...instinct ; it raises us in the scale of being. Who does not recollect Johnson's full-toned aphorism — "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future to predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." If, then, we can cast... | |
 | sir William Duguid Geddes - 1885 - 102 pàgines
...when standing upon the Celtic soil of lona, and inspired by its sacred memories, he declared that " whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, exalts us in the dignity of thinking beings ". That is an entirely Celtic sentiment, and once we appreciate... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 480 pàgines
...it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the Dower of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant,...future, predominate over the present, advances us 1n the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may... | |
 | William Winter - 1892 - 350 pàgines
...XXIL SCOTTISH PICTURES . . . 308 XXIIL IMPERIAL RUINS . . . .315 XXIV. THE LAND OF MARMION . . 324 " Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignitv of thinking beings. . . . All travel has its advantages- ff the passenger visits better countries... | |
 | Alfred Herbert Palmer - 1892 - 480 pàgines
...very present piece of cat's-meat on the skewer ; that is their preference. But Johnson teaches us that whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present advances us in the ranks of thinking beings. And the best poets and painters appeal to this faculty and instinct within... | |
 | Cork Historical and Archaeological Society - 1895 - 654 pàgines
...now: all departed : clean gone : the world-dramatingist has written exeunt. Dr. Johnson has said that "whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, exalts us in the scale of thinking beings," and certainly archaeology fills this high office as regards... | |
 | Anna Callender Brackett - 1893 - 240 pàgines
...forcible is Doctor Johnson's plea for this culture — that whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings. The education of women is notoriously defective in the cultivation of definite ideas... | |
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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... 
