 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...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Σελίδα 198των James Boswell - 1820Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 σελίδες
...shall melt with fervent heat ; the earth also, and the works' that are therein, shall be burnt up. 5. We were now treading that illustrious island, which -was once the luminary of the Caledonian rep-ions, whence savage clang and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge', and the blessings... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 828 σελίδες
...mankind was not ashamed to avow : '• we are now treading (says doctor Johnson) tLat illustrious bland which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving1 barbarian? derived the knowledge and the blessings of I be Pirlmmentiry records, and Bcrmingbnm... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 σελίδες
...Our boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1820 - 570 σελίδες
...valley, the lake of considerable extent, all increase our veneration. In a word, on viewing such a scene "to abstract the mind from all local emotion would...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1820 - 410 σελίδες
...nature, with the most exalted wisdom, and the most heroic virtue. It was well observed by Johnson, that " to abstract the mind from all local emotion, would...endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1820 - 298 σελίδες
...of thoselearned seminaries for which Ireland had been long so justly famous, " whence savage septs and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," and reduced the people and the country to that state of moral and political degradation, from which,... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - 1821 - 378 σελίδες
...of Fingal, — the perilous whirlpools of Corry vreckan,— or that once famous and holy island, " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." The city of PERTH, besides the attractions which its own rich and beautiful environs possess, is the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 σελίδες
...the new edition of the Biographia Britannica, but had declined it; which he afterwards said to me he would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 σελίδες
...attention, where something of more than usual importance is to be presented. ' Illustrious ! ' * " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1822 - 434 σελίδες
...nature, with the most exalted wisdom, and the most heroic virtue. It was well observed by Johnson, that " to abstract the mind from all local emotion, would...endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the... | |
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