 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 頁
...possible. 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 Oct. 19.J Among the ruins of lona. 381 Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 頁
...possible. 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 us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Alban Butler - 1800 - 648 頁
...Dr Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses ; what" ever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over " the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings." It would be difficult to point out persons to whom this can be better applied than these... | |
 | Donald Campbell - 1801 - 374 頁
...possible. 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 us indifferent and uumoved... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 496 頁
...possible. 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 us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 頁
...possible. 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 us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 頁
...possible. 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 us indifferent and unmoved... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 頁
...passible. 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 would conduct us, indifferent and unmoved,... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 416 頁
...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...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Adieu ! LETTER XLIX. WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. Lichfield, June £0, 1806. WHAT an insurmountable bar is a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 頁
...possible. 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 us indifferent and unmoved... | |
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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. 
