 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - Clergy - 1829 - 700 pages
...whence savage clans, and roving bar2 G 2 barians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...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... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 268 pages
...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;...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important to... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1925 - 452 pages
...out of date — so that all men should hear, and, let us hope, ponder on the good doctor's words: — To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as... | |
 | Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...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... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - Aesthetics - 1994 - 454 pages
...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,...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.43 Johnson pleads for a "predominating]" cognitio intellectiva which... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 1096 pages
...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;...the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."31 It is, I think, a mark of wisdom to recognize the force of this... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...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... | |
 | Harriet Guest - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 362 pages
...regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...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... | |
 | Adolphe Pictet - Foreign Language Study - 2000 - 592 pages
...would he willingly compromise candour so much as to allow that it is altogether devoid of merit. " Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings ;" and what can be more conducive to this end than the study of man... | |
 | Alicia Chudo - History - 2000 - 255 pages
...Investigations (Wittgenstein): Let's not quibble about words. Philosophy in the Bedroom (Sade): Whatever removes us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the future, or the distant predominant 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... 
