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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... "
The Juvenile Tourist ; Or, Excursions Into the West of England: Into the ... - Page 66
by John Evans - 1818 - 520 pages
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The Life and Services of Captain Philip Beaver, Late of His Majesty's Ship Nisus

William Henry Smyth - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1829 - 366 pages
...associations of ideas are stubborn companions ; Johnson says, to abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were 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...
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 7

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...
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A Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond, A.M.: Of Trinity College, Cambridge ...

Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1830 - 382 pages
...of religion. To abstract the mind fronj all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever...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....
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The Boswellian Hero

William C. Dowling - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 226 pages
...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " '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'...
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Victorian Criticism of the Novel

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; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings'...
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Journal and Proceedings, Volume 10

Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1925 - 452 pages
...and, let us hope, ponder on the good doctor's words: — To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would...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....
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Aesthetics and contemporary discourse

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, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.43...
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Evolution and Literary Theory

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; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."31...
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would...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....
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Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810

Harriet Guest - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 362 pages
...the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would...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....
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