 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of OUT senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances im in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my frrend be that frigid These unhappy exiles... | |
 | John Britton - Tunbridge Wells (England) - 1832 - 198 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1846 - 728 pages
...silence. NAUTICAL SKETCHES. — No. V. Th<t Soldier Admiral Monk. The Commonwealth battles at Sea, §-c. "Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity cf thinking beings." JOHNSON. the memory. They are offered as mere outlines, with here and there a... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, tho distant, or the 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 us indifferent and... | |
 | 1833 - 984 pages
...future into the present. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." This fine sentiment, though in words it may seem to contradict my statement, is yet in sense the same. Both... | |
 | William C. Dowling - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 226 pages
...knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...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 - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 268 pages
...the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), reads: 'Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future...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
...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...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
...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...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... | |
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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. 
