 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.  Littell's Living Age - Page 2471866Full view - About this book
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1829 - 146 pages
...local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such rigid philosophy, as may conduct us unmoved over any ground,... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - Clergy - 1829 - 376 pages
...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...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thfhking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent... | |
 | 1829 - 760 pages
...the present is unquestionable. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings:" and all experience testifies, that nothing accomplishes this so effectually as religious retirement.... | |
 | James Stuart M. Anderson - 1829 - 776 pages
...only innocent, but laudable and useful. A great writer, referring to this very point, observes, that " whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings;" and accordingly wise men have always approved and sanctioned a guarded indulgence of the feeling to... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 296 pages
...thought that whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, or makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking heings.* His was no frigid philosophy, no hahitual devotion ; his heart was warm, his soul was sincere,... | |
 | William C. Dowling - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 226 pages
...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual release, and develops from an adjustment of the... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 272 pages
...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;...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important to Alison, does appear in Johnson's original.... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1925 - 452 pages
...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,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...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;...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... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - Aesthetics - 1994 - 454 pages
...1978). 42 James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found, introd. Lewis Leary (New York: Capricorn, 1961)209,118. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.43 Johnson pleads for a "predominating]" cognitio intellectiva which "advances us in the dignity... | |
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