 | Fashion - 1868 - 738 pages
...present — advances us in the dignity of think- • ing 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... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 60 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... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Education - 1839 - 228 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly - Architecture, Gothic - 1921 - 696 pages
...Clteaux" (Paris, 1759). 430 in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be the 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... | |
 | James Cooper - Sermons, English - 1924 - 160 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 valour. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism... | |
 | James MacLuckie Connell - Devotional literature - 1924 - 170 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, 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... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...over the present, advance* 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... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1925 - 452 pages
...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far 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... | |
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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... 
