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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... "
Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley: Comprising ... - Page 316
by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1825 - 459 pages
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Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year ...

New-York Historical Society - 1814 - 558 pages
...crimes have been perpetrated, will always excite kindred emotions of admiration or horror : And if " 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 Jona," we may, with equal...
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The Analectic Magazine, Volume 4

1814 - 550 pages
...excellence, which often float before the mind, and then vanish away like the mist of the morning. If " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force in the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That toan is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." As a political writer, his productions are more distinguished by subtlety of disquisition, poignancy...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 3

1815 - 698 pages
...exist no more, is unqualified for the most enviable attainments of the scholar or the philosopher; " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain fofce upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." '...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pages
...friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue....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,...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue, The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would...would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent use of metaphorical expressions. JOHNSON. " Why,...
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Walks in Oxford. 2 vols. [in 1].

W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 pages
...philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent and " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nilied by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man " is little...would not grow warmer among the ruins " of lona." And who but must feel emotion of such a nature — who but must be sensible of a generous elevation...
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The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Issues 1-11

1817 - 292 pages
...present, advances us in the digpity of thinking heings." " That man," he continues, " is little to he envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ;" and, in the same strain of sentiment, I would ask, who could traverse with cold indifference and...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 87, Part 2; Volume 122

1817 - 732 pages
...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,...
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