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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...

The Juvenile Tourist ; Or, Excursions Into the West of England: Into the ... - Page 66
by John Evans - 1818 - 520 pages
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A Journey to the Western Isles: Johnson's Scottish Journey

Samuel Johnson, Finlay J. Macdonald - Travel - 1983 - 218 pages

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A Cotswold Village, Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire

Joseph Arthur Gibbs - Cotswold Hills (England) - 1983 - 458 pages

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 15

James E. Person, Jr. - Baroque literature - 1991 - 488 pages

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 15

James E. Person - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 488 pages

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James Boswell, the Later Years, 1769-1795

Frank Brady - Authors, English - 1984 - 730 pages

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to ...

Samuel Johnson - Literary Collections - 1984 - 436 pages

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Victorian Criticism of the Novel

Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 268 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; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings'...

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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1985 - 448 pages

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Held in Trust: The National Trust for Scotland

Iain Crawford - Architecture - 1986 - 192 pages

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おくのほそ道: Basho's Travel Journal

Bashō Matsuo - Authors, Japanese - 1986 - 146 pages

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