 | James Wilson - 1842 - 562 σελίδες
...later all must be partakers, should have changed or chilled a feeble human heart. This region of ruins, once the " luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," is indeed a solemn place, though now too well known, both from good and bad descriptions, to excuse... | |
 | George Anderson (of Inverness.), Peter Anderson - 1842 - 750 σελίδες
...Island — lona, Ithona, " the Island of the Waves,"— Icolmkill— the Isle of Columba's Cell, — whence " savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," is situated about nine miles to the south-east of Staffa, and is separated from Mull by a narrow but... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 σελίδες
...eloquence which is, in our opmion, you know, the finest in all the Johnsonian declamations : — "We were now treading that illustrious island which was once...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over... | |
 | Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 σελίδες
...from the summits of Ben Nevis and Ben Lomond — I have visited the " illustrious island from which savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Yes, amid the ruins of lona " 1 have learned to abjure that frigid philosophy which would conduct us... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1843 - 558 σελίδες
...some writers, is tile meaning of the term lona.— See Cornel!'* Tan,- in the JligUamh, t "We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions. That man is little lo be envied, whore pnlriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | 1844 - 398 σελίδες
...small island has been rendered famous on account of having once been, in the language of Dr. Johnson, "the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." There is also much reason to believe that " this isle was a sacred spot even long before it was shone... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1844 - 376 σελίδες
...of recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 σελίδες
...from praise. [Reflection» on Landing at lona.'] [From the ' Journey to the Western Isles.'] We were x x x x ileriveil the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local... | |
 | 640 σελίδες
...Hebrides," remember his famous passage, from which the writer of the volume before us has taken his motto, " That illustrious island, which was once the luminary...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and raving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." This number materially... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 σελίδες
...RULE 111.— The penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island which was once...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... | |
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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. 
