 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.  The Quarterly Review - Page 1561878Full view - About this book
 | 1830 - 580 lehte
...the present is unquestionable. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson*, " withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings :" and all experience testifies, that nothing accomplishes this so effectually... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 lehte
...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, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and fer from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 314 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 lehte
...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;...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 lehte
...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,...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... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 lehte
...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual release, and develops... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 lehte
...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;...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important to Alison,... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 lehte
...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,...future 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... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 lehte
...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;...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... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 1096 lehte
...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;...future predominate over 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,... | |
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