 | 1829 - 296 pages
...thought that whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, or makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking heings.* His was no frigid philosophy, no hahitual devotion ; his heart was warm, his soul was sincere,... | |
 | 1830 - 716 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...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us, indifferent or unmoved, over any ground... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...and the works that are therein shall be burned up. It is the observation of a great moralist, that " whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." In reference to our present subject, the obiervation carries with it much weight. For what, I may ask,... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...And hence the chirm hiftoric scenes impart : Whatever withdraws us from the power of our •rotea ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and fer from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct es indiffèrent and unmoved over any ground... | |
 | 1830 - 580 pages
...the present is unquestionable. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson*, " withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings :" and all experience testifies, that nothing accomplishes this so effectually as religious retirement.... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 pages
...grand sentence ? " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ! Whatever withdraws...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 pages
...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual release, and develops from an adjustment of the... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 pages
...ALISON 1 Samuel Johnson's dictum, in the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), reads: 'Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important to Alison, does appear in Johnson's original.... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 pages
...words: — 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...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 1096 pages
...not be amiss to quote Johnson. In A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, Johnson remarks that "whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."31 It is, I think, a mark of wisdom to recognize the force of this observation, and we may... | |
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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. 
