 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pages
...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,...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...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, The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or... | |
 | W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 pages
...philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent and " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nilied by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man " is little...plain of Marathon, or whose " piety would not grow warmer among the ruins " of lona." And who but must feel emotion of such a nature — who but must... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...present, advances us in the digpity of thinking heings." " That man," he continues, " is little to he envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon...plain .of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ;" and, in the same strain of sentiment, I would ask, who could traverse... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...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,...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves.... | |
 | John Evans - 1818 - 564 pages
...future, predominant over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct...envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ! " After a fortnight's... | |
 | W. M. Wade - 1818 - 530 pages
...philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent and: " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nitied by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man " is little...plain of Marathon, or whose " piety would not grow warmer among the ruins " of lonai" And who> but- must feel emotion of *uch a nature—who but must... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pages
...reflections on his landing upon the island of Icolmkill! " Far from me, and from my friends," says he, " be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent...been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." That this frigid philosophy was a stranger to the soul of Wilson, we have his own declaration in evidence;... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...roving barbarians, " derived the benefits of knowledge, anil the blessings of religion. Fitr " from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy,...gain force upon the plain of " Marathon, or whose rjicty would not grow warmer among the ruins "•etlonn." Having made this digression from the subject... | |
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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... 
