 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...possible* 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. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 570 pages
...possible. 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. Far be from me, and from my friends, that frigid philosophy which might conduct us indifferent or unmoved... | |
 | Charles Butler - Philology - 1817 - 426 pages
...us," says Dr. Johnson, " 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 " rational beings." It would be difficult to point out any, to whom this observation can be better... | |
 | John Christian Curwen - Agricultural laborers - 1818 - 468 pages
...Johnson, in his Tour to the Hebrides, says, " Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future predominate...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." A school, I was glad to hear, was erecting by Mr. Atkinson in the village, for teaching on the Lancastrian... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...possible. 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. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Literary Society of Bombay - Asia - 1819 - 412 pages
...opposite excesses of his successor. " Whatever withdraws us from the dominion of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." « It is not for me to attempt an estimate of those exertions for the advancement of knowledge which... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - Ireland - 1819 - 820 pages
...possible. 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. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved, over... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 424 pages
...possible. 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. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pages
...meaning more ever 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved,... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - Architecture - 1820 - 570 pages
...possible. 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. Far from us, and from our friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
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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. 
