 | H. W. Tilman - 2004 - 938 pages
...advances us in dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon... | |
 | J. Arthur Gibbs - 2004 - 272 pages
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 | George Dekker - 2005 - 342 pages
...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 over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force... | |
 | Maria Nugent - 2005 - 273 pages
...Isles, in which Johnson claims that he and his friends do not subscribe to 'such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue'.40 Taking this as his cue, Bertie writes: 'Amongst the spots in Australia... | |
 | Lucy Beckett - 2006 - 668 pages
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 | James Boswell - 2006 - 388 pages
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 | James Boswell - 2006 - 456 pages
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 | C. Adams - 2006 - 356 pages
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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... 
