 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...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 us indifferent...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to visit monuments ; some care was necessary for ourselves.... | |
 | Luke Booker - 1825 - 190 pages
...time uselessly in pacing the ground whither we now lead him.—But " far from me and from friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent...the Plain of Marathon, or whose Piety would not grow warmer among the Ruins of Iona."f > On entering a similar Scene—Tintern Abbey—the writer knew a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 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...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We come too late to visit monuments ; some care was necessary for ourselves.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 602 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...whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain vOL. IX. t of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We come too late... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 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...whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain VOL. IX. I. of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow among the ruins of lona. We came too late to... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1925 - 452 pages
...over 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...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. Amongst the... | |
 | Alice O. Howell - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 220 pages
...set foot on their island. But the spirit of Columba never left the place, and Johnson was to remark: "That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." We walked pensively southward and then turned west along the road... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...Druidical origin. It is in reference to all these remains of ancient religion that Johnson exclaims, '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 amid the ruins of lona.' In the 'Lord of the... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...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 us indifferent and unmoved over any ground that has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | Ronald Ferguson, Ron Ferguson - History - 1998 - 196 pages
...build their own byres and dykes. Even in its state of dissolution, lona moved Dr Johnson, who observed: That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. Another visitor was Sir Walter Scott, who described the inhabitants... | |
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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... 
