 | James Boswell - 1826 - 412 pàgines
...the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; and...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent use of metaphorical... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pàgines
...distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings, tzi from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent use of metaphorical... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 pàgines
...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." But this refers to generations of the holy and the wise who are passed away, and their mantles we keep... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 pàgines
...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...would not grow warmer .among the ruins of lona.'., " You, Douglas, are one of those whom the Doctor would have removed far away from himself and from... | |
 | Jean Rodolphe Peyran - 1826 - 620 pàgines
...wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." — May we not add, or in the valleys of Luzerna, Perosa, and San Martino ? * Dr. Samuel Johnson. NOUVELLES... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 pàgines
...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 Iona."J * Fancy's plume. — Orig. t Pleasures of Imagination, v. 567, 604, with the exclusion of v.... | |
 | 1828 - 924 pàgines
...us indifferent and unmoved over 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." Whether the eloquent enthusiasm of this writer was not raised in this celebrated passage beyond what... | |
 | 1828 - 546 pàgines
...bravery, and virtue. The 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." • From lona, he wrote to Mrs. Richmond : " I am persuaded that my dearest Mary will not only allow... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1828 - 698 pàgines
...bravery, and virtue. The 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 Iona." l From Iona, he wrote to Mrs. Richmond : " I am persuaded that my dearest Mary will not only... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1829 - 146 pàgines
...may conduct us 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." — Journey to the Western Islands. Note 6, page 49. Aloof from these the youthful Darnley stood. Henry... | |
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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... 
