 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 halaman
...We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 halaman
...We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | James MacDonald (A.M.), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1811 - 848 halaman
...We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over th» present, advances... | |
 | 1811 - 1054 halaman
...the tomb of Howard. It may be supposed we did not halt with indifference to view the hallowed spot. " To abstract the " mind from all local emotion " would be impossible if it were ," endeavoured, and it would be " fooliih if it were possible. What" everwithdiaws us from die power •" of our senses;... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 halaman
...surveyed is a sweet, a solemn, a sacred feeling. It is amongst those, of which Johnson finely says, whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, and the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Adieu !... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 halaman
...now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, where savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits...if it were endeavoured ; and would be foolish, if :t were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the... | |
 | Francis Hardy - 1812 - 450 halaman
...a paucity of ideas, than affectation and false taste in composition, are surely to he laughed at. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible." So says Johnson, in that truly eloquent passage, (one of the best, perhaps, he ever wrote) and which... | |
 | Francis Hardy - 1812 - 440 halaman
...a paucity of ideas, than affectation and false taste in composition, are surely to be laughed at. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible." So says Johnson, in that truly eloquent passage, (one of the best, perhaps, he ever wrote) and which... | |
 | 1812 - 778 halaman
...conviction, — •' To abstract the mind from all local emotion, would 1812.] Review of New Publications. be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be...foolish, if it were possible ; whatever withdraws tit from the power of our senses, whatever makes the pasl, the distant, or the future predominate over... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 540 halaman
...revolutions of society, that this island, which was once " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," had, when Dr. Johnson visited it in 1773, " no school for education, nor temple for worship, only two... | |
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We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian 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... 
