 | 1817 - 436 pages
...emotion, would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and it would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...future, predominate over the present; advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far be from me, and from my friends, that frigid philosophy which might... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...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, whatever...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...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, whatever...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... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1816 - 570 pages
...emotion, would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and it would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...predominate over the present ; advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far be from me, and from my friends, that frigid philosophy which might... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pages
...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 ; whatever...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...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 ; whatever...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... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 370 pages
...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 who recommend the... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1817 - 616 pages
...finest of human feelings, they abounded ; in other respects they seemed of another world. " What" ever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from " the power...predominate over " the present, advances us in the dignity of human " beings." It would be difficult to point out persons to whom this can be better applied... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...has truly said, that it is impossihle to ahstract the mind from all local emotion ; and " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the digpity of thinking heings." " That man," he continues, " is little to he envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1817 - 426 pages
...In other respects, they seemed of another world : — " Whatever withdraws us," says Dr. Johnson, " from the power of our senses ; whatever makes " the...predominate " over the present, advances us in the dignity of " rational beings." It would be difficult to point out any, to whom this observation can... | |
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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. 
