 | English literature - 1787 - 690 pages
...fuch fcenes as had been dignified by wililom, bravery, or virtue. " That man (fays the great moralift) is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon." U is on this principle that Mr Tooke (more commonly , known, as a patriot, under the name of Mr Home)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduit us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ? We came too late to vifit monuments : fome care was neceflary • for ourfelves. Whatever was in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 280 pages
...philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wildom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied,...whofe piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of We came too late to vifit monuments : fome care was neceffary for ourfelves. Whatever was WESTERN ISLANDS,... | |
 | Donald MacNicol - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1779 - 392 pages
...thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona" In thefe tranfports of a not unlaudable enthuliafm, the celebrity of lana, as an ancient feat of learning,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...indifferent, and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wifdom, bravery, or virtue. That That man is little to be envied whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whofe piety v:ould not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. Weftcm Iflands,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1785 - 546 pages
...thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ! *" .;:... Upon » Had our Tour produced nothing elfe but this fublime paffage, the world mufl have... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1785 - 548 pages
...thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified...would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whole piety would not grow warmer among the ruins ofJona!*" Upon tlpdh hearing that Sir Allan M'Lean... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1785 - 400 pages
...has been dignified by wifdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is litric to be envied, whofe patriotifra would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to vifit monuments: «h fome care was neceflary for ourfelves. Whatever was in the... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides - 1786 - 478 pages
...philofophy as may conduit us indifferent and unmoved over any ground .which has been dignified by wildom, bravery or virtue. That man is little to be envied,...patriotifm would not gain force upon the plain of Maraibon, or whofe piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona* !" Upon Upon hearing that Sir... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified...would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whole piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. We came too late to vifit monuments : fome... | |
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Far from me and from my friends, be fuch frigid philofophy as may conduit us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wifdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whofe patriotifm would not gain force upon the... 
