 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 546 pages
...Irish Brigade." In the opinion, too, of all who justly appreciate mental worth and dignity, the uniform attachment of the Irish catholics to their religion,...have thus uniformly adhered to religious principle? * Hittoire de 1'Iriande, vol. ii. p. 748. CHAP. LXXXI. HISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF THE IRISH CATHOLICS SINCE... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 538 pages
...had, in the reign of the last of these sovereigns, embraced the protestant religion.—Notwithstanding the subsequent severities, the Irish catholics now...distant, or the future,— or, in other words, —the eternal,—predominated more over the present, than in these men, who, in the midst of all that wounds,... | |
 | 1822 - 682 pages
...emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavored, 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." And yet, fresh as our country is, we are not entirely without those impressive... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1822 - 434 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... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 546 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," he continues, " be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 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... | |
 | David Stewart - 1822 - 658 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 dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, aud from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as would conduct... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 546 pages
...Johnson, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...the future, predominate over the present ; advances the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 554 pages
...Johnson, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...the future, predominate over the present ; advances the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 pages
...will join, because it would have procured us more of Johnson's most delightful species of writing; and whatever makes the past, the distant, or the 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... | |
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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. 
