 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 436 pages
...being remanded a prisoner to Venice. H P. 18, 1. 7And hence the charm historic scenes impart; 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... | |
 | Alexander Knox - 1834 - 514 pages
...differences of natural temper already referred to. Dr. Johnson admirably observes, that " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." (Journey to the Hebrides, Icolmkill.) Nothing, surely, can be more self-evident... | |
 | George Roberts - 1834 - 364 pages
...there are examples by which our cotemporaries may be instructed and forewarned ; and that, " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, — whatever...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."* Besides, the bulk of every local history is not made up, in the present... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1834 - 330 pages
...being remanded a prisoner to Venice. H P. 18,1. 7. And hence the charm historic scenes impart; 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... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 610 pages
...when a moral genius . — ^__/ writes them. Dr. Johnson's grand idea is universally true : ' whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.' w Most men of genius and celebrity have been fond of romances in their... | |
 | 1834 - 536 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... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 pages
...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual release, and develops... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 pages
...Samuel Johnson's dictum, in the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), reads: 'Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important to Alison,... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 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 far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...ruins of lona, Johnson was inspired as usual to think of elevation above the present moment: "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... | |
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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. 
