 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1829 - 376 pàgines
...influence of recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1829 - 700 pàgines
...influence of recollections like these that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving bar2 G 2 barians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pàgines
...hishop's house. Such is the present state of that illustrious island, ' which was once the seminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion.' At Sandwich, in Ross-shire, is a curious obelisk, but of a more recent date than those abovementioned.... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1829 - 428 pàgines
...and grandeur. It was respecting lona that Dr. Johnson wrote the following celebrated passage : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of i lie Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans and roving barbarians denved the benefit of knowledge,... | |
 | 1830 - 716 pàgines
...apostrophising language, on landing on the island of lona, the cemetery of the Kings of Scotland. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pàgines
...from censure or from praise, Inflections on Lamling at lona. — From t?M 'Journey to tlie Isles.' der r } + tho Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pàgines
...shall quote his words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pàgines
...scholar will call to recollection the following remarks on this topic by our great British moralist:— " We were now treading that illustrious island which...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pàgines
...shall quote his words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | 1831 - 480 pàgines
...Waves." This small, but celebrated island, " was once," to use the memorable words of Dr Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical establishment upon the island... | |
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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... 
