 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...  The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone - 15 페이지저자: James Boswell - 1821전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 페이지
...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...whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves. Whatever was in... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 페이지
...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...force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would rot grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Tour to the Hebrides, p. 346. His mind will be filled with... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton - 1812 - 90 페이지
...horror: And if " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Joua," we may with equal confidence assert, that morbid must be his sensibility and small must be his... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 138 페이지
...bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."* If the plains of Marathon, and the ruins of lona, be calculated to stimulate curiosity, and awaken... | |
 | 1813 - 458 페이지
...POETRY. LOCAL EMOTION. " That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not pain force «n the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the rums of lona." Jou>-s«>- . Lives there a man who would not know On Marathon or Leuctra's plain, Warmer... | |
 | 1845 - 752 페이지
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." While a pilgrimage to Palestine may be made, as it often is, subservient to the cause of error and... | |
 | 1814 - 550 페이지
...mist of the morning. If " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force in the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he is still more to be pitied, whose heart swells with no virtuous emotion when the clouds of... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1814 - 558 페이지
...horror : And if " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jona," we may, with equal confidence, assert, that morbid must be his sensibility, and small must be... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 페이지
...indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That toan is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." As a political writer, his productions are more distinguished by subtlety of disquisition, poignancy... | |
 | 1815 - 698 페이지
...scholar or the philosopher; " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain fofce upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." ' . The study of the Gothic architecture takes no weaker hold upon the mind, for it connects itself... | |
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