 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1828 - 698 σελίδες
...that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...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... | |
 | 1828 - 546 σελίδες
...that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...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... | |
 | James Townley - 1828 - 398 σελίδες
...one of the Hebrides ; " once the Luminary of the Caledonian regions," (as Dr. Johnson calls it,) " whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion!" — In this seminary- which might justly have been denominated a MISSIONARY COLLEGE, the students spent... | |
 | 1828 - 452 σελίδες
...Highlanders. It is needless to inform the reader that this is, as Johnson expresses it, " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barba* rians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion ;" that it was, in the... | |
 | 1828 - 586 σελίδες
...the following celebrated passage. " ' We were now treading that illustrious island which wits > nee the luminary of the Caledonian regions ; 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1829 - 146 σελίδες
...are so often interspersed through his writings. " We are now treading," he says, " 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 σελίδες
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1829 - 376 σελίδες
...that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...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 σελίδες
...that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 σελίδες
...'Journey to tlie Isles.' We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of tho + blessing of religion. To abstract the mind from ail local emotion wuilld be impossible if it were endeavoured,... | |
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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... 
