 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 σελίδες
...sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " 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 be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 σελίδες
...sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " 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 be... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 σελίδες
...following remarks on this topic by our great British moralist:— " 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 be... | |
 | 1831 - 480 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 σελίδες
...member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge', and the blessings of religion. 2. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of that division of Arabia, which, for the luxury of its soil... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1832 - 490 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 406 σελίδες
...the southern extremity of Mull, lies the famous lona — " once," in the language of Dr. Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is merely the Celtic term I-thona, (the th not pronounced,) signifying the Isle of Waves.... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 σελίδες
...occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill, the ancient lona : — " We are 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 σελίδες
...sensations much more forcibly than "I am capable ol doing: " 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 be... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 360 σελίδες
...island of Icolmkill lies off the south-west point of Mull : this has been termed " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." It was in the sixth century the place where Columba, an Irish saint, first propagated the Christian... | |
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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... 
