 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 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 our senses, wrhatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1861 - 788 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 — whatever makes tinpast, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking... | |
 | James Frederick S. Gordon - 1868 - 204 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—whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominant over the present—advances... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1869 - 444 pages
...abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible if it were endeavored, and would t»e 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... | |
 | James Kirby - 1878 - 658 pages
..." that 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—whatever makes the past, the distant or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 pages
...religion. To abstract the. mind froru 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 eeiiBes. whatevi r makrfl the past, the di-tant, or the future predominate over the prewnit, adrunces... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 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 our senses, whatever makes the pa?t, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1886 - 264 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 powers of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,... | |
 | 1887 - 642 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 the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 558 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 cower of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,... | |
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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... 
