 | DeWitt Clinton - 1812 - 90 pages
...crimes have been perpetrated, will always excite kindred emotions of admiration or horror: And if " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Joua," we may with equal... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pages
...distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 138 pages
...one, and reflecting on the other. " Far from me, and far from my friends," as Dr. Johnson observes, " be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon,... | |
 | 1845 - 752 pages
...be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Far from me, imd far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1814 - 558 pages
...have been perpetrated, will always excite kindred emotions of admiration or horror : And if " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Jona," we may, with equal... | |
 | 1814 - 580 pages
...which often float before the mind, and then vanish away like the mi.-.!, of the morning. If " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force in the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That toan is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy,...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pages
...distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy,...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | 1817 - 732 pages
...in the spirit of a true-born Englishman, mutatis mutandis, from the same great writer, "That Briton is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Waterloo." How did I wish at that moment for the pencil, not of a Poet of the modern school,... | |
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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. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... 
