 | 1815 - 698 էջ
...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." '... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 էջ
...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...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... | |
 | L. Fussell - 1818 - 322 էջ
...countries, he may learn to improve his own ; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, and virtue : " and adding, with matchless pathos, " whose heart would not beat high when he B \ treads... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 էջ
...reflections on his landing upon the island of Icolmkill! " Far from me, and from my friends," says he, " be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent...been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." That this frigid philosophy was a stranger to the soul of Wilson, we have his own declaration in evidence;... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 372 էջ
...distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances ив т the dignity of thinking being«. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy,...to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piefy would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."* V. Present... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 820 էջ
...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...been dignified by wisdom, bravery or virtue. That man U little to be envied, whose patriotism •would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 828 էջ
...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...us indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which lias been dignified by wisdom, bravery or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism... | |
 | John Gamble - 1819 - 748 էջ
...countries, he may learn to improve his own ; and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, and virtue : " and adding, with matchless pathos, " whose heart would not beat high when he B treads... | |
 | 1819 - 552 էջ
...before the mind in its better hours; and then vanish away for ever, before the breath of the world. If " that man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 էջ
...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...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... | |
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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... 
