 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
 | 1828 - 546 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... | |
 | 1828 - 452 σελίδες
...Ignorant Highlanders. It is needless to inform the reader that this is, as Johnson expresses it, " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barba* rians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion ;" that it was, in the... | |
 | 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 - 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
...feeling which are so often interspersed through his writings. " We are now treading," he says, " 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... | |
 | 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 - 370 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... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1829 - 700 σελίδες
...like these that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of...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,... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 σελίδες
...recollection the following remarks on this topic by our great British moralist:— " 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 be... | |
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