 | William Henry Smyth - 1829 - 366 Seiten
...associations of ideas are stubborn companions ; Johnson says, to abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ; and I confess that while we were nearing Cape Malheureux, in doubt whether it would not soon be bathed... | |
 | 1829 - 550 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1830 - 382 Seiten
...of religion. To abstract the mind fronj all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever...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.... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 Seiten
...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " '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'... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 Seiten
...ALISON 1 Samuel Johnson's dictum, in the Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), reads: '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'... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 Seiten
...and, let us hope, ponder on the good doctor's words: — To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would...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.... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - 1994 - 454 Seiten
...1978). 42 James Fenimore Cooper, Home as Found, introd. Lewis Leary (New York: Capricorn, 1961)209,118. 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.43... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 1096 Seiten
...not be amiss to quote Johnson. In A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, Johnson remarks that "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."31... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 Seiten
...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...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.... | |
 | Harriet Guest - 2000 - 362 Seiten
...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...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.... | |
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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... 
