| English essays - 1826 - 722 pages
...indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man k little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of looa." Yours, &c. PHILOCHTHES. IN connection with the subject of the Earl... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
| Donald Campbell - Adventure and adventurers - 1801 - 374 pages
...from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and uumoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue !—that man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the Plain of Marathon,... | |
| 1856 - 634 pages
...Far from me, and my ' friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent ' and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by ' wisdom, bravery, or virtue ; ' and, go where he would, his * ' Mit dem Giirtel, mit dem Schleier, Reisst der schone Wahn entzwei."... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...me, and far from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, «s may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gam force upon the plains of Marathon, or... | |
| Richard Llwyd - 1804 - 258 pages
...Marathon, or whose Piety would not grow warm amid the ruins of lona ; far be it from me to pass indifferent over any ground which has been dignified by Wisdom, Bravery, or Virtue. SONNET TO RESIGNATION. Jlither, Maid of plaeid eye, With looks on earth, but thoughts on bighWhere'er,... | |
| English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...be foolish if it were possible ;' and never ' with frigid philosophy passes indifferent and unmoved over any ground, which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.' The birthplace of Newton (Woolsthorpe, near Colsterworth, Lincoln* shire) claims and obtain:? a panegyrical... | |
| Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 340 pages
...from me, and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground, which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
| Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1805 - 340 pages
...from me, and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground, which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
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