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A Statistical Account, Or Parochial Survey of Ireland: Drawn Up from the ... - Page 617
by William Shaw Mason - 1819
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...future predominate over the prenenl. advances us in the. dignity of thinking beings. Far from me aud + becu dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied whose patriotism would...
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A Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond, A.M.: Of Trinity College, Cambridge ...

Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1830 - 382 pages
...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...us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which * We refer the reader to Tenant's Tour through Scotland, and Johnson'3 Tour lo the Hebrides, for further...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 100, Part 2; Volume 148

1830 - 718 pages
...beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us, indifferent or unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...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...dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose...
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Oxford: A Poem

Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 314 pages
...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...dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose...
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A Literary History of England

Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 pages
...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...dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...predominate over the present, advance* us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose...
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Journal and Proceedings, Volume 10

Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 pages
...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety...
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...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 us indifferent and unmoved over any ground that has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism...
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Life of Johnson

James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pages
...from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and umnoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, style being exceedingly dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness...
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