 To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - 260 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1800 - 288 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 ページ
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion woul'i be impossible if it were endeavoured, aud passed away ; I belli;*. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | 1866 - 956 ページ
...of ardent disciples. Dr. Johnson, with sententious condescension, uttered his celebrated dictum, " Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. . . . That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | John Morison - 1844 - 636 ページ
...his apostles ! 47 MEMOIR OY JOSEPH HARDCASTLE, ESQ. Of HiTCHAJI HOUSE, IK Till COUNTY OF tUURIV. " WHATEVER withdraws us from the power of our senses,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." There is much truth in the sentiment thus forcibly expressed by Dr. Johnson, in that celebrated passage... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1844 - 514 ページ
...bring larger and larger portions of the past and future into the present. "Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, "withdraws us from the power of our senses — whatever...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." This fine sentiment, though in words it may seem to contradict my statement, is yet in sense the same.... | |
 | 1844 - 420 ページ
...things which are just around us. " Whatever withdraws us," says Dr. Johnson, " from the power of опт senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." — Tour to the Hebrides, p. 322, ed. Phil. 1810. Whatever directs the eye and the heart to heaven... | |
 | Kentucky Historical Society - 1910 - 408 ページ
...now." To the second class I quote from a prominent literary man and critic, these words: "What ever makes the past, the distant or the future predominate...present advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Furthermore there is other obvious practical value in the study of our memorable past. History has... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1844 - 572 ページ
...Charles Forster, BD 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1843. TF there be truth in that celebrated saying, that ' whatever makes -*- the past, the distant, or the future...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings,' then surely the generation in which we live may lay no small claim to intellectual advancement. The... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 ページ
...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual release, and develops from an adjustment of the... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 ページ
...ALISON 1 Samuel Johnson's dictum, in the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), reads: 'Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important to Alison, does appear in Johnson's original.... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 ページ
...out of date — so that all men should hear, and, let us hope, ponder on the good doctor's words: — To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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... | |
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