 | New-York Historical Society - 1814 - 514 strani
...crimes have been perpetrated, will always excite kindred emotions of admiration or horror : And if "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 Jona," we may, with equal... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1927 - 376 strani
...carried it to his lips."—CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY. Page 79.—That man need be little envied, fifc.—" That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona."—A JOURNEY TO... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1927 - 436 strani
...the end of the passage, which admits of, and receives, frequent quotation. " That man," he says, " 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 Iona." Johnson had not... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1913 - 972 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... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 strani
...mind in its 52 ' betters hours, and then vanish away for ever, before the breath of the world. If " that man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona," surely he... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 strani
...predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct...to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. Amongst the... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 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... | |
 | Leith Davis - 1998 - 240 strani
...both moved by the presence of history. Boswell repeats Johnson s expostulation in his own account: "That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plan of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona\" (5: 334). Boswell... | |
 | John C. Linehan - 2009 - 138 strani
...and put down by an act of parliament : not an Irish history permitted in an Irish national school. '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,' are the words of... | |
 | Herb Galewitz - 2003 - 68 strani
...throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon . . . SAMUEL JOHNSON Country is dear, but liberty is dearer still. JUVENAL I look upon the whole world... | |
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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. 
