 | 1832 - 406 pages
...of so striking an appearance, nor so many private houses which may rival even the palaces of Rome. " 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 Montgomery - 1833 - 368 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 - 1833 - 1182 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 Montgomery - 1833 - 348 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... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1833 - 800 pages
...Kings," instead of "gnashed his teeth To sec thee rend the pageants of his throne."— v. 583-1 Q2 844 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... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits »f 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... | |
 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 pages
...religion. To abstract the mind from all " local emotion would be impossible, if it were endea" voured, 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 Cowper - 1835 - 370 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 - 1835 - 366 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... | |
 | 1835 - 312 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... | |
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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... 
