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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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The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia

Pat Rogers - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 524 pages

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Das Ästhetische als demokratisierendes Prinzip

Alfred Hornung - Art and state - 1996 - 388 pages

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - History - 1995 - 1240 pages

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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages

...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...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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