 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...savage dans 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, whdtey,e,r makes the past, the distant, or the... | |
 | 1837 - 236 pages
...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and 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,... | |
 | Classical Association (Great Britain). Manchester and district branch - Castles - 1906 - 238 pages
...experiences the same feelings which prompted Dr. Johnson's famous rapture about his visit to lona : "To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...savage clans and roving 6 barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would 10 be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes... | |
 | John Caird - Christian life - 1906 - 282 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 be impossible if it were endeavoured, and foolish if it were possible. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as would conduct... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - Antiquities - 1907 - 500 pages
...left it we recalled the words of a great man who said, referring to another famous Irish settlement, "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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 634 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 be impossible, if it were endeavoured, *nd would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1909 - 392 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 be impossible if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Raby - 1909 - 168 pages
...I'aet Vice-President of the Institute of Journalists, and Member of the Johnson Birthplace Committee. " Far from me. and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as should conduct a man indifferent or unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery,... | |
 | John George Snead-Cox - Cardinals - 1910 - 538 pages
...usual Ml common sense, put this point of view excellently well in his famous passage about lona : " 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... | |
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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... 
