 ... 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 has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 317by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pages
...virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Had our Tour produced nothing else but this sublime passage, the world must have acknowledged that... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain 21 LIME TREES. .- 147 of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Mrs. Ann Radcliffe, who was a native of Derbyshire, often visited Haddon Hall, for the purpose of storing... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 pages
...that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain 21 of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Mrs. Ann Radcliffe, who was a native of Derbyshire, often visited Haddon Hall, for the purpose of storing... | |
 | Thomas Walker Horsfield - 1824 - 496 pages
...The man is little to be euried, whose patriotism u*nnld not gain force itpou the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." — Dr. JOHNSOH. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. BAXTER, LE\VES. MDCCCXXIV. TO SIR CHARLES MERRICK BURRELL,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...Allan could demand, for the inhabitants were Macleans ; hut having little, they could not give us much. He went to the headman of the island, whom fame,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 602 pages
...is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain vOL. IX. t of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We come too late to visit monuments ; some care was necessary for ourselves. Whatever was in the island,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 pages
...patriotism would not gain force upon the plain VOL. IX. I. of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments; some necessary for ourselves. Whatever was in the island, sir Allan could demand, for the inhabitants were... | |
 | Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of Normanby - 1825 - 272 pages
...indignation at ' the feelings of that man, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.' What would he think then of those who could pick chicken bones under the pillars of the Temples of... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1825 - 486 pages
...That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." The evening was fast approaching when we came to a Pottowattomie village, on the west shore. As it... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 pages
...That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, . or whose piety Would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." But this refers to generations of the holy and the wise who are passed away, and their mantles we keep... | |
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