 | 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,...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Adieu ! LETTER XLIX. WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. Lichfield, June £0, 1806. WHAT... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 138 páginas
...instructive. w Whatever/' says the eloquent author just quoted, *f withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Thus, by contemplating, and analyzing the best works of others, we may... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 370 páginas
...observes " whatever draws off our 535 attention from ourselves, whatever makes the past, the uncertain, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of rational beings," — and I think the world is under little obligation to those poetical moralists... | |
 | John Christian Curwen - 1818 - 468 páginas
...effect. Dr. Johnson, in his Tour to the Hebrides, says, " Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." A school, I was glad to hear, was erecting by Mr. Atkinson in the village,... | |
 | 1829 - 612 páginas
...from local emotions ; and wisely thought that whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, or makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.* His was no frigid philosophy, no habitual devotion ; his heart was warm,... | |
 | Literary Society of Bombay - 1819 - 412 páginas
...are corrected by the opposite excesses of his successor. " Whatever withdraws us from the dominion of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant,...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." « It is not for me to attempt an estimate of those exertions for the... | |
 | 1819 - 406 páginas
...are corrected by the opposite excesses of his successor. " Whatever withdraws us from the dominion of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predo-' zninate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." It is not for me... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 496 páginas
...observes, " whatever draws off our attention from ourselves, whatever makes the past, the uncertain, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of rational beings," — and I think the world is under little obligation to those poetical moralists... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 362 páginas
...observes, " whatever draws off our attention from ourselves, whatever makes the past, the uncertain, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the scale of rational beings," — and I think the world is under little obligation to those poetical moralists... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 538 páginas
...Dr. Johnson, " 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 rational beings." In whom has the past, the distant, or the future,— or, in other words, —the eternal,—predominat... | |
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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. 
