 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 trang
...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract...if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the powerof our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present,... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1841 - 318 trang
...to occupy a lifetime, and there are few anywhere who can abide Johnson's test . when he says that, " whatever withdraws us from [the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, ie distant, or the future predominate over the presmt, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."... | |
 | John James - 1842 - 562 trang
...been no more acute observer of human nature and of the springs of action by which it is moved, that " to abstract the mind from all local emotion, would...endeavoured ; and would be foolish if it were possible." This moral feeling, interwoven as it is with our nature, is intended for our good ; and if duly cultivated,... | |
 | John Harris - 1842 - 504 trang
...Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona — that to abstract the mind from local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible," how deep and lasting the impression calculated to be produced on a people who had to walk daily amidst... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 trang
...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 wonld be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 trang
...efficere potest."* . ••:•:•• * InPtxf. ••.•rWV. •• June 4, 1843. \ •« • BOOK I. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 trang
...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits ition of the invisible country which is destined to...successor of Saffah, laid the foundations of Bagd put, j the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1848 - 348 trang
...and would be foolish if it 1 Hist. lit. de 1'Italie ii. p. 373 and 453. - Plato de Repub. VI. p. 292. were possible. "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distaut, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinkins; beings.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 trang
...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians ileriveil the benefits nel-dungeon fitter ; All fixed on me their stony eyes, That in the moon did glitter. Th woul'i be impossible if it were endeavoured, aud would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | 1844 - 398 trang
...is known by the name of the " Ridge of Kings." Dr. Johnson, who visited this Island in 1773, says, " 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,... | |
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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... 
