 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 geography of the British Isles - Σελίδα 100των Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 σελίδες
...landed, no less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — * We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clansand roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 σελίδες
...very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 σελίδες
...very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...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 - 1826 - 416 σελίδες
...supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of...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... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 σελίδες
...still continues to be one of the most affecting in our literature : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of...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... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 σελίδες
...that I do not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...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... | |
 | Jean Rodolphe Peyran - 1826 - 620 σελίδες
...admitted by a late eloquent author,* who, in allusion to the island of lona, one of the Hebrides, as an island " which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," observes, " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured,... | |
 | William Otter - 1827 - 544 σελίδες
...landed, no less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — ' We were noiv treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving harbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | 1828 - 924 σελίδες
...their country or of the world. " We were now treading," says Dr. Johnson, speaking of lona, " that illustrious island which was once the luminary of...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... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1828 - 698 σελίδες
...like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of...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... | |
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