 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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,... | |
 | Jacob Green - Europe - 1831 - 298 pages
...machinery to effect them, which are peculiar to this place; but to attempt to describe them, would for me " be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible." The wonderful mechanical genius of Sir Richard Arkwright is here every where displayed, and he is one... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of OUT senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - Oxford (England) - 1831 - 338 pages
...own time, remain as he left them. On entering them, who does not remember his own grand sentence ? " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ! Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 pages
...own time, remain as he left them. On entering them, who does not remember his own grand sentence ? " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ! Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...of so striking an appearance, nor so many private houses which may rival even the palaces of Rome. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, tho distant, or the future,... | |
 | John Britton - Tunbridge Wells (England) - 1832 - 198 pages
...spark from apathy itself. " To abstract the mind," says the stern and eloquent moralist, Dr. Johnson, " from all local emotion would be impossible if it were...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 266 pages
...honest name and the treasures of a good man's memory. I know," continued he in the words of Dr. Johnson, that : — ' To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, were it endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. That man is little to be envied whose... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 368 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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... | |
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To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were 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 predominate over... 
