 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...future, predominate over the present, ad. vances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground whjch has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...the future predominate over the present, advances us in * ' cc 4 the 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 plajn of Marathon*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1810 - 438 pages
...the future, predominate over the present, adTances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far fronv 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Universities and colleges - 1810 - 306 pages
...the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground...has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." Journey to the Western Islands. Few places, t may be added, afford such ample scope to the indulgence... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 482 pages
...or the future, predominate over the present, ad• • ranees us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my " friends be such frigid philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent " and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 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 - 1811 - 386 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,... | |
 | James MacDonald (A.M.), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agriculture - 1811 - 848 pages
...distant, or the future predominate over th» 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,... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton - Indians of North America - 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... | |
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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... 
