 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 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 - 1825 - 622 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 VOL. IX. I. of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 510 pages
...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far lj '.in 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 Marathron,... | |
 | Luke Booker - 1825 - 190 pages
...devote his time uselessly in pacing the ground whither we now lead him.—But " far from me and from 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 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,...conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground whi«h has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - America - 1825 - 486 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...conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground that has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 602 pages
...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 the plain vOL. IX. t of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We come too late... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 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, .... | |
 | Jean Rodolphe Peyran - Protestantism - 1826 - 620 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 on the plain of Marathon, or... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Socialism - 1826 - 294 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,... | |
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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... 
