 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 820
...' and it would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, •whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...present, advances 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... | |
 | Literary Society of Bombay - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 412
..." Whatever withdraws us from the dominion of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." « It is not for me to attempt an estimate of those exertions for the advancement of knowledge which... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from us, and from our friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future...present, 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... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us unmoved over any ground... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...you two ideas for one ; — conveys the meaning more ever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...present, 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...present, 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,... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...another world : — " Whatever withdraws us," says doctor Johnson, " from the power of our senses j " whatever makes the past, the distant, or the " future,...over the present, advances us " in the dignity of rational beings." It would be difficult to point out any, to whom this observation can be better applied,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends," he continues, " be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent... | |
 | 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 682
...endeavored, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." And yet, fresh as our country is, we are not entirely without those impressive evidences of mutability,... | |
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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. 
