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... Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Página 77editado por - 1848Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Britton - 1832 - 198 páginas
...the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon,... | |
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 páginas
...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue ! That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on D 6 the plain of... | |
| John Abercrombie - 1833 - 370 páginas
...or Waterloo, " Far from me," says Dr. Johnson, " and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dig-, nified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would... | |
| John Abercrombie - 1834 - 388 páginas
...or Waterloo. " Far from me," says Dr. Johnson, " and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon,... | |
| Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 páginas
...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 over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
| Robert Anderson - 696 páginas
...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, over any...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
| Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 páginas
...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon,... | |
| Harriet Guest - 2000 - 362 páginas
...savages. But when Johnson writes: "Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue," he seems to suggest that the "local emotion" of patriotism or piety experienced at one site... | |
| Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 páginas
...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 over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
| H. W. Tilman - 2004 - 938 páginas
...advances us in dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon... | |
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