 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 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,...the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent use of metaphorical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 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 - English literature - 1816 - 432 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,... | |
 | W M. Wade - 1817 - 662 pages
...indifferent and " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nilied by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man " is little to be envied, whose patriotism would...plain of Marathon, or whose " piety would not grow warmer among the ruins " of lona." And who but must feel emotion of such a nature — who but must... | |
 | 1817 - 292 pages
...present, advances us in the digpity of thinking heings." " That man," he continues, " is little to he envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon...plain .of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ;" and, in the same strain of sentiment, I would ask, who could traverse... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1817 - 732 pages
...in the spirit of a true-born Englishman, mutatis mutandis, from the same great writer, "That Briton is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Waterloo." How did I wish at that moment for the pencil, not of a Poet of the modern school,... | |
 | W. M. Wade - Oxford (England) - 1818 - 530 pages
...indifferent and: " unmoved, over any ground which has been dig" nitied by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man " is little to be envied, whose patriotism would...plain of Marathon, or whose " piety would not grow warmer among the ruins " of lonai" And who> but- must feel emotion of *uch a nature—who but must... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 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,... | |
 | John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...beings. 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. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...and from my friends," says he, " be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue." That this frigid philosophy was a stranger to the soul of Wilson, we have his own declaration in evidence;... | |
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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... 
