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... Life and works of William Cowper - Página 107por William Cowper - 1836Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 páginas
...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...whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves. Whatever was in... | |
| Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 páginas
...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...force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would rot grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Tour to the Hebrides, p. 346. His mind will be filled with... | |
| DeWitt Clinton - 1812 - 90 páginas
...crimes have been perpetrated, will always excite kindred emotions of admiration or horror: And if " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Joua," we may with equal... | |
| 1812 - 778 páginas
...distant, or the future predominate over the pre*ent, advances u» in the diguity of thinking beings. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plan of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." There is a species... | |
| James Boswell - 1813 - 484 páginas
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona /." * * Had our Tour produced nothing .else but this sublime passage, the world must have acknowledged... | |
| James Boswell - 1813 - 492 páginas
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona! " * * Had our Tour produced nothing else but this sublime passage, the world must hare acknowledged... | |
| John Britton - 1813 - 138 páginas
...me, and far from my friends," as Dr. Johnson observes, " 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 plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."* If the plains of... | |
| 1813 - 458 páginas
...POETRY. LOCAL EMOTION. " That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not pain force «n the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the rums of lona." Jou>-s«>- . Lives there a man who would not know On Marathon or Leuctra's plain, Warmer... | |
| 1845 - 752 páginas
...if it were possible. Far from me, imd far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." While a pilgrimage to Palestine may be made, as it often is, subservient to the cause of error and... | |
| New-York Historical Society - 1814 - 558 páginas
...crimes have been perpetrated, will always excite kindred emotions of admiration or horror : And if " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jona," we may, with equal... | |
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