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 beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct... NEW AND POPULAR HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. - Page 26by ROBERT FERGUSON, LL.D. - 1851Full view - About this book
| English essays - 1826 - 722 pages
...dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has...dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man k little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...the ruins of lona. 381 Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has...envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona1 !' Upon hearing that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has...envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or •whose piety would not grow warmer ajnong the ruins of lona! We came too late... | |
| Donald Campbell - Adventure and adventurers - 1801 - 374 pages
...from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and uumoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom,...envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the Plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." The city of Diarbeker... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 pages
...ground which had been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue ; whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow- warmer among the ruins of lona." The 9 traveller, traveller, who, with an amiable enthusiasm in literature and science, roams over the... | |
| 1802 - 572 pages
...which had be;n dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue ; whose patriotism would- not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." The 9 travcllesy traveller, who, with an amiable enthusiasm in literature and science, roams over the... | |
| 1856 - 634 pages
...warmth, than Rogers : ' Far from me, and my ' friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent ' and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by ' wisdom, bravery, or virtue ; ' and, go where he would, his * ' Mit dem Giirtel, mit dem Schleier, Reisst der schone Wahn entzwei."... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, «s may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has...is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gam force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not erow warmer among the ruins of lona.... | |
| Cambridge (England) - 1804 - 476 pages
...tumultuous reform. Rambler *, " is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety, would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." And he who in tracing the academic haunts of the wise and the learned of elder times, does not feel... | |
| Richard Llwyd - 1804 - 258 pages
...Marathon, or whose Piety would not grow warm amid the ruins of lona ; far be it from me to pass indifferent over any ground which has been dignified by Wisdom, Bravery, or Virtue. SONNET TO RESIGNATION. Jlither, Maid of plaeid eye, With looks on earth, but thoughts on bighWhere'er,... | |
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