| William Otter - Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822 - 1824 - 700 pages
...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...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, and virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of... | |
| Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...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...ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, and virtue : that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain 21... | |
| Epaphras Hoyt - Indians of North America - 1824 - 344 pages
...friends, such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved, over any ground that lias been dignified by wisdom, bravery or virtue. That...•envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the rums of lona." Partaking of this... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 490 pages
...advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends," he continues, ube such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent...unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wis• Fancy's plume. — Orig. f Pleasures of Imagination, v. 567, 604, with the exclusion of v. 571,... | |
| Thomas Walker Horsfield - Genealogy - 1824 - 496 pages
...wisdom, bravery or virtue. The man is little to be euried, whose patriotism u*nnld not gain force itpou the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." — Dr. JOHNSOH. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. BAXTER, LE\VES. MDCCCXXIV. TO SIR CHARLES MERRICK BURRELL,... | |
| Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1925 - 452 pages
...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 may conduct...to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. Amongst the... | |
| Alice O. Howell - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 220 pages
...set foot on their island. But the spirit of Columba never left the place, and Johnson was to remark: "That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." We walked pensively southward and then turned west along the road to the Hill of the Angels from which... | |
| Kristina Straub - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 260 pages
...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,...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona! [JWI 123-24] The reverence for the religious heritage of lona Johnson shares with Martin. But both... | |
| Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...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,...piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona" (journey 148). Boswell quotes this passage reverently "as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...Druidical origin. It is in reference to all these remains of ancient religion that Johnson exclaims, 'That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of lona.' In the 'Lord of the... | |
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