 | 1823 - 862 σελίδες
...bat celebrated island, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions (as Dr Johnson expresses it), whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is derived from a Hebrew word signifying a dove, in allusion to his patron Columba, who... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 σελίδες
...less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — * We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clansand roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 σελίδες
...the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 σελίδες
...the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - 408 σελίδες
...celebrated island ; " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions," as Dr. Johnson expresses it : " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." .- ~ It is three miles long, and from half a mile to a mile broad. On the east side it is flat ; in... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 σελίδες
...continues to be one of the most affecting in our literature : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 σελίδες
...criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 σελίδες
...not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...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... | |
 | William Otter - 1827 - 544 σελίδες
...than three of us broke forth in the following words : — ' We were noiv treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving harbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | 1828 - 924 σελίδες
...country or of the world. " We were now treading," says Dr. Johnson, speaking of lona, " that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
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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... 
