 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 pages
...beings loijg since passed away. Dr. Johnson observes, that " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses — whatever makes the past, the distant, or...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved,... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...beings long since passed away. Dr. Johnson observes, that " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses — whatever makes the past, the distant, or...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 pages
...endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 pages
...endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1825 - 510 pages
...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever inakea the past the distant or the future predominate over...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far lj '.in me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 pages
...endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...endeavoured; and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...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 - 558 pages
...vassal of the tyrant, hopeless. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or...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... | |
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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. 
