 | William Thomas Stead - 1896 - 532 strani
...mav conduct us, inditicient and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, braverv, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism...gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. X. Those interestedjn S. Columba will find profit in the following... | |
 | Katharine Schuyler Baxter - 1897 - 666 strani
...mar in the slightest degree its enjoyment. If, as Dr. Johnson said in that well-known passage — ' That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon ' — what ought to have been — what were our feelings — the representatives and descendants, in... | |
 | Ada Goodrich-Freer - 1899 - 356 strani
...J. Archibald. Edinburgh, 1893. advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety not grow wanner among the ruins of lona." INDEX ADAMNAN, S., 298, 305, 306 Antipathies, 251 Argyll,... | |
 | Robert William Billings - 1901 - 330 strani
...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...envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." The great moralist's... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1903 - 510 strani
...Druidical origin. It is in reference to all these remains of ancient religion that Johnson exclaims, " That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer amid the ruins of lona." In the Lord of the... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 strani
...indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery or virGbe tue. The man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." 'THE NOVEL... | |
 | 1857 - 974 strani
...sympathy with hallowed associations, especially if the sympathy be aided by a lively imagination. " That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety tcould not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."* If this sentiment... | |
 | 1905 - 902 strani
...Far from me and from my friends be such rigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved on any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery,...envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." There is no past... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1905 - 870 strani
...Nursery of Saints and the Oracle of the West.' FlG " 3— THE RUINS OF IONA. (After an old drawing) That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would...not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose P ie 'y would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."— DR. JOHNSON, A Journey to the Western Isies... | |
 | 1905 - 482 strani
...trip, I could but recall Dr. Johnson's words about Marathon, and adapt them to the scene before us : " That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of (Tappan)." The country identified with Andre is in every way worth visiting. Its various points of... | |
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That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. 
