 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 Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - 127 ページWalter Scott 著 - 1849全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1817 - 732 ページ
...in the spirit of a true-born Englishman, mutatis mutandis, from the same great writer, "That Briton is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Waterloo." How did I wish at that moment for the pencil, not of a Poet of the modern school,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 ページ
...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...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves. Whatever was in the island... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 ページ
...future, predominant over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct...envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ! " After a fortnight's... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 ページ
...reflections on his landing upon the island of Icolmkill! " Far from me, and from my friends," says he, " be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent...been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." That this frigid philosophy was a stranger to the soul of Wilson, we have his own declaration in evidence;... | |
 | W. M. Wade - 1818 - 524 ページ
...the past^.the distant, or " the future, predominate over the present, ad* vances us in the dignity of thinking beings. " Far from me and from my friends be such frigid " philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent and " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nified by wisdom,... | |
 | W. M. Wade - 1818 - 530 ページ
...or " the future, predominate over the present, ad" vances us in the dignity of thinking beings. IC Far from me and from my friends be such frigid " philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent and: " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nitied by wisdom,... | |
 | 1819 - 304 ページ
...and roving barbarians, " derived the benefits of knowledge, anil the blessings of religion. Fitr " from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy,...gain force upon the plain of " Marathon, or whose rjicty would not grow warmer among the ruins "•etlonn." Having made this digression from the subject... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 372 ページ
...future, predominate over the present, advances ив т the dignity of thinking being«. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct...to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piefy would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."* V. Present... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 820 ページ
...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...been dignified by wisdom, bravery or virtue. That man U little to be envied, whose patriotism •would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose... | |
 | John Gamble - 1819 - 748 ページ
...to improve his own ; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, and virtue : " and adding, with matchless pathos, " whose heart would not beat high when he B treads... | |
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