 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 str.
...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 present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy... | |
 | 1835 - 454 str.
...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 present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy... | |
 | 1835 - 312 str.
...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 present; advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 str.
...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 present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 str.
...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 present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 str.
...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 present, advance* us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 str.
...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' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 str.
...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' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 str.
...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 present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 str.
...usual to think of elevation above the present moment: "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... | |
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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. 
