 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1828 - 698 pages
...savage clans, and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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... | |
 | 1828 - 546 pages
...savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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... | |
 | Religion - 1828 - 586 pages
...savage clans, and roving barbarians, 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 fuolish if it wore possible Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1829 - 366 pages
...the General had requested of me. Early associations of ideas are stubborn companions ; Johnson says, to abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - Clergy - 1829 - 370 pages
...savage clans, and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - Clergy - 1829 - 700 pages
...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 would...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... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1829 - 428 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians denved the benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1829 - 146 pages
...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. TO abstract the mind from all local emotions 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,... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1829 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...benefits of knowledge and the blessing of religion. To abstract the mind from ail local emotion wuilld bers Whatever withdrawn us from the power of our senses, whatever makes tlie past, the distant, or the future... | |
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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... 
