 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...Hebrides, for further information. derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...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 would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 848
...savage clan* and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, a;id the blessings of religion. 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... | |
 | John James - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...been no more acute observer of human nature and of the springs of action by which it is moved, that " to abstract the mind from all local emotion, would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; and would be foolish if it were possible." This moral feeling, interwoven as it is with our nature, is... | |
 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...as a class. On such a field we fearlessly oppose Dr. Johnson to both Sir Thomas Wilde and Mr. Erie : "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... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...efficere potest."* . ••:•:•• * InPtxf. ••.•rWV. •• June 4, 1843. \ •« • BOOK I. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. ined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body. [The City of Bagdad would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever... | |
 | 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...is known by the name of the " Ridge of Kings." Dr. Johnson, who visited this Island in 1773, says, " 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,... | |
 | Samuel Fox - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...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 would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the powers of our senses, — whatever... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...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 would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever... | |
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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... 
