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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. "
The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine - Página 121
1817
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Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the ...

Everett Zimmerman - 2007 - 276 páginas
...giving it shape and emotional resonance. Toward the end of the Journey, Johnson memorably observes, "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings" (148). This may seem an eccentric philosophical dictum for a travel writer...
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The Globe, Volúmenes12-13

William Henry Thorne - 1902
...the plains of Marathon," adding, "or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." For, "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Thus we in some measure see the due proportion of things, and the greatness...
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A Loose Canon: Essays on History, Modernity and Tradition

Brian J. Coman - 2007 - 188 páginas
...amid the ruins of lona, gave us those famous lines in his Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland: Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...
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