 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1807 - 496 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 492 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1813 - 484 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power r Hist.... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Socialism - 1826 - 294 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1829 - 146 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. TO abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of OUT senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Education - 1839 - 228 pages
...savage clans and roving harbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | Richard Murray - 1840 - 194 pages
...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions, would be impossible if it were attempted; and would be foolish, if it were possible.' 1 The Dearmach mentioned by Bede, Camden, and... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...religion. 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 powerof our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present,... | |
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We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion... 
