 There is yet a higher strain. In the paragraph just 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 over the present, advances us in the dignity...  Lectures on poetry and general literature - Page 47by James Montgomery - 1833 - 394 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...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...present, advances 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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1826 - 738 pages
...would be foolish, if it were pmsible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from nsy eiends be such frigid philosophy, ¿a nay conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...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...present, advances 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... | |
 | Donald Campbell - Adventure and adventurers - 1801 - 374 pages
...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...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and uumovedover... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1804 - 596 pages
...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...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct u> indiffer> tul and unmoved over... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...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 the present, advances us to the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...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 the present, advances us in t\ e dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1807 - 496 pages
...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...present, advances 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1807 - 496 pages
...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...present, advances 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... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...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...present, advances 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... | |
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