 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1829 - 376 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 predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1829 - 366 pages
...the General had requested of me. Early associations of ideas are stubborn companions ; Johnson says, to abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ; and I confess that while we were nearing Cape... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1830 - 382 pages
...barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind fronj all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored,...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pages
...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of 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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 298 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 us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of 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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 338 pages
...own time, remain as he left them. On entering them, who does not remember his own 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 us from the power of our... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 pages
...own time, remain as he left them. On entering them, who does not remember his own 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 us from the power of our... | |
 | John Britton - 1832 - 198 pages
...eloquent moralist, 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 makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
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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... 
