 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduit us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has...bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whofe piety would not grow warmer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 280 pages
...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be hich frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wildom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force... | |
 | Donald MacNicol - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1779 - 392 pages
...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any...bravery, or virtue ! That man is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whofe piety would not grow warmer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy, as may conduct us indifferent, and unmoved, over any...been dignified by wifdom, bravery, or virtue. That That man is little to be envied whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 548 pages
...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any...bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whole piety would not grow warmer... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 546 pages
...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any...bravery, or virtue; That man is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whofe piety would not grow warmer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1785 - 400 pages
...the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any...dignified by wifdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is litric to be envied, whofe patriotifra would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whofe piety... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...Oct. 19.J Among the ruins of lona. 381 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1786 - 478 pages
...dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduit us indifferent and unmoved over any ground .which has been dignified by wildom, bravery or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any...bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whole piety would not grow warmer... | |
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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... 
