 We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...  Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - עמוד 176נערך על ידי - 1804תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 דפים
...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | 1811 - 626 דפים
...inspire, is absorbed in a yet higher and more sacred sentiment. " To abstract the mind, says Johnson, from all local emotion, would be impossible if it...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Far from me and from my friends be that frigid philosophy, which would conduct us unmoved, over any... | |
 | Donald Campbell - 1801 - 374 דפים
...of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion, 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 makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 דפים
...be pleasure without dan- •' ger, aud security without restraint.(T TREASURES OF LOCAL EMOTJOW. ' To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 420 דפים
...restraint. PLEASURES OF LOCAL EMOTION. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, it' it were 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 future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 דפים
...regions, where savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessingsof religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 דפים
...regions, where savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessingsof religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, •whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | 1805 - 448 דפים
...which they have immortalized ! " To abstract the mind from all local emotion," says Dr. Johnson, " would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | 1805 - 570 דפים
...needless to transcribe it. Mr. M. every where feels the full force of Johnson's observation, that ' to abstract the mind from all local emotion would...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ;' and never ' with frigid philosophy passes indifferent and unmoved over any ground, which has been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 דפים
...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
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