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 would not gain force upon the... The Great North of Scotland Railway. A Guide - Página xivde William Ferguson (of Kinmundy.) - 1881 - 174 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| New-York Historical Society - 1814 - 558 páginas
...crimes have been perpetrated, will always excite kindred emotions of admiration or horror : And if " 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 among the ruins of Jona," we may, with equal confidence, assert, that morbid... | |
| 1845 - 752 páginas
...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 would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." While a pilgrimage... | |
| 1814 - 550 páginas
...excellence, which often float before the mind, and then vanish away like the mist of the morning. If " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force in the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That toan is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." As a political writer,... | |
| 1815 - 698 páginas
...exist no more, is unqualified for the most enviable attainments of the scholar or the philosopher; " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain fofce upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." '... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 páginas
...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 would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to... | |
| Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 páginas
...indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. We came too late to... | |
| James Boswell - 1816 - 500 páginas
...indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue, The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." the richness of Johnson's... | |
| 1817 - 732 páginas
...in the spirit of a true-born Englishman, mutatis mutandis, from the same great writer, "That Briton is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Waterloo." How did I wish at that moment for the pencil, not of a Poet of the modern school, but of... | |
| W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 páginas
...indifferent and " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nilied by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man " is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not " gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose " piety would not grow warmer among the ruins " of lona." And who but must... | |
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