 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 páginas
...local emotion, would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends," he continues, " be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved,... | |
 | 1826 - 738 páginas
...local emotion would be impossible, If it were endeavoured ; and would be foolisb, if it were possible* Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, ar.d from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 páginas
...local emotion would he impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings, tzi from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 528 páginas
...the savage of the wood, or in the vassal of the tyrant, hopeless. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Viewed in this light, the quibbles of the schoolmen, and the trifling disputations of a Thomas, and... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 558 páginas
...the savage of the wood, or in the vassal of the tyrant, hopeless. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Viewed in this light, the quibbles of the schoolmen, and the trifling disputations of a Thomas, and... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 páginas
...it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power r Hist. lit. de 1'Italie ii. p. 373 and 453. of our senses, whatever makes the pas't, the distant,...in the 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 páginas
...predominate over the present, advances us In the dignity of thinking being«. Far from me, and from ray friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or... | |
 | 1828 - 546 páginas
...local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...in the 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... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1828 - 698 páginas
...local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...in the 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... | |
 | 1828 - 924 páginas
...local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over ground which has... | |
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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 beings. 
