...exercised in these remote contemplations, we feel the force of Dr. Johnson's well-known observation : — ' Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses—...— advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." In working out her plan, she has freely levied contributions from other writers on trees, and assimilated...

...exercised in these remote contemplations, we feel the force of Dr. Johnson's wellknown observation : — " Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...— advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." The elm, however, is a tree which records events not only of individual or national, but of universal,...

...tended to enlarge their limits of researeh and extend their literary acquirements. Dr. Johnson says, " whatever makes the past, the distant or the future...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." This is substantially true in all the relations of life. Whatever avocation destiny has marked out...

...benefit to society when a moral genius writes them. Dr. Johnson's grand idea is universally true : " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."* Most men of genius and celebrity have been fond of romances in their youth, and the taste has continued...

...quoted from Dr. Johnson, we are taught, that "whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, and makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Now this is the very essence, and to produce it is the end of poetry ; in illustration of which the...

...treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence aavngc clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of...over the present — advances us in the dignity of think- • ing beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us...

...by communion with those who have been exalted above their fellows. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Therefore we contend, that that system of education is diligently to be eschewed, which makes the material...

...OBEYED, AND HE WENT OUT, NOT ENOWING WHITHBR H« WEXT. IT is remarked by an eminent moral writer,1 " that whatever withdraws . us from the power of our senses,...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.1 The assertion is unquestionably true; and when extended to embrace the relations which men...

...English moralist has well remarked, that " whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, and makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Now it is precisely this influence which historic studies, above all other pursuits, are particularly...

...poetry. " Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings." Sometimes, no doubt, poetry openly assumes the garb of morality, but it is generally...