 | William Jones - 1838 - 568 σελίδες
...following remark* on this topic by our great British moralist :— " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans nml roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | 1838 - 730 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 clans and roving barbarians de* Mr. Daniell's splendid work, " A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain," contains several excellent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 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... | |
 | James Cooper - 1924 - 160 σελίδες
...past, spoke to us in ever clearer tones of manifold 1 ' We were now treading that illustrious island, once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...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 MacLuckie Connell - 1924 - 170 σελίδες
..." We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of Caledonian religions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1927 - 436 σελίδες
...one of the choicest examples cf Johnsonese: — " We are now," he says, ' ' treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived tEe benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion." And again there is this fine sentence at the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 σελίδες
...eloquent paslages which dwell on the memory, the reflection that introduces the account of Icolmkill, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," is remarkable for its piety, pathos, and sublimity. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 σελίδες
...Western Islands which Boswell at one point introduces into his own narrative, a meditation on lona, " 'whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 σελίδες
...paragraph of which so moved Boswell that he cited it in his own Tour: 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... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 σελίδες
...Aberbrothick: We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledoman regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians...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... 
