 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 pages
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power r Hist. lit. de 1'Italie ii. p. 373 and 453. of our senses, whatever makes the pas't, the distant,... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of OUT senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...religion. 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, whdtey,e,r makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in... | |
 | Henry O'Reilly - 1838 - 570 pages
...us in any other respect. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion," says an eminent moralist, " would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and it would be foolish if it were possible." The places where great events have been performed — where great virtues have been exhibited — where... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...religion. 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 powerof our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and Mayniflcenct of the. Caliphs.] Almansor, the brother...successor of Saffah, laid the foundations of Bagd put, j the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking... | |
 | Samuel Fox - 1845 - 500 pages
...religion. 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 powers of our senses, — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 498 pages
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored ; and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present ; ad18... | |
 | 1848 - 616 pages
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored ; and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present ; advances... | |
 | Michael Crotty - 1850 - 488 pages
...mind," says Dr. Johnson, " 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 gives elevation to the thoughts and sublimity to the mind ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or... | |
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Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery... 
