... 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... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - الصفحة 477بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1825عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| William Cowper - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."* . . n, .. TO THE REV. WILLIAM UNWIN. »inll '.'i'' • • ..-.I i '•""•,l•• ' Olne}', Aug.... | |
| Horace Smith - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...Johnson — "is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Even the most obdurate and perverse natures cannot always resist the power of sympathy. Indecorous... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...Johnson, " is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." 226. On account of their unlimited range, the accidental or merely arbitrary combinations are extensively... | |
| Henry O'Reilly - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...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 lona," we may with equal confidence assert that morbid must be his sensibility and small must be his capacity... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...virtue. The man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." The passage, it is true, has reference to an actual visit to the places which have been the scenes... | |
| John D'Alton - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 960
...observed, 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 lona : and surely, he were not worthy of the name of Irishman, who would not feel electrified by the moral... | |
| James Montgomery - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...virtue ! That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." True and beautiful, not less than sublime and tender, as these sentiments will be acknowledged by every... | |
| Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.' PERIOD THE NINTH. From the Urgirá to the Fall of the Ileptarc/iy. 622 то 828 — 206 YEARS. SECTION... | |
| 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...beings. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the Plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.' Yet Marathon is only a desert swamp, and lona a wretched heap of dilapidated huts. We must, for our... | |
| 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." This little island, only three miles long by one in breadth — ft mere dot in the ocean, looking out... | |
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