 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...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 us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That toan is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | 1817 - 436 pages
...beings. Far be from me, and from my friends, that frigid philosophy which might conduct us indifferent or unmoved over any ground that has been dignified, by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." So spake the Sage, in words never to be forgotten : unenvied be the man who has not felt their force... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...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 us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue, The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1816 - 570 pages
...beings. Far be from me, and from my friends, that frigid philosophy which might conduct us indifferent or unmoved over any ground that has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." So spake the Sage, in words never to CHAP. VIII. be forgotten : unenvied be the man who has not felt... | |
 | L. Fussell - East Sussex (England) - 1818 - 322 pages
...own ; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, and virtue : " and adding, with matchless pathos, " whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...reflections on his landing upon the island of Icolmkill! " Far from me, and from my friends," says he, " be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." That this frigid philosophy was a stranger... | |
 | John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...predominant over the 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 any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | Religion - 1818 - 588 pages
...from me, and from my friend?, that frigid philosophy which might conduct us indifferent or unmovet over any ground that has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.' So spake the sage, in words never to be forgotten ; unenvied be the man who has not felt their force... | |
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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... 
