 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 páginas
...surveyed is a sweet, a solemn, a sacred feeling. It is amongst those, of which Johnson finely says, whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Adieu !... | |
 | 1829 - 760 páginas
...edition. — The utility of works like the present is unquestionable. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings:" and all experience testifies,... | |
 | 1830 - 580 páginas
...edition. — The utility of words like the present is unquestionable. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson*, " withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings :" and all experience testifies,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1833 - 388 páginas
...speak at random, when we mention the sublimity of faith. " Whatever," says the British moralist, " withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."f And when * Foster. f... | |
 | William Harper - 1836 - 23 páginas
...a science of beauty in poetry and the fine arts, which they regard as the highest moral science. " Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses...whatever makes the past, the distant, or 'the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." To enjoy the ideas of... | |
 | 1839 - 394 páginas
...one case, and an antidote in the other. This resource is afforded us by the influences of poetry. " Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings." Sometimes,... | |
 | Baron Stow - 1846 - 328 páginas
...we speak at random, when we mention the sublimity of faith. "Whatever," says the British moralist, " withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." t And when we speak of... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 páginas
...local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored ; and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses...whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present ; ad18 ORATORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. vances us in the dignity of... | |
 | 1848 - 600 páginas
...local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored ; and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses...whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the preVOL. xxxi. 66 512 Fiddt of Early American Eloquence. [June, sent ; advances... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1848 - 906 páginas
...Isles,' and in the description of Icolmkill, to which he gives the more harmonious Latin name lona ? ' Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses,...whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, exalts us in the scale of rational beings.' " That the culture of the... | |
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. 
