 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
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 σελίδες
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " 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 be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 σελίδες
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " 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 be... | |
 | 1831 - 480 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...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical establishment upon the island... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 σελίδες
...penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...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... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1832 - 490 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...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical establishment upon the island... | |
 | 1832 - 406 σελίδες
...the southern extremity of Mull, lies the famous lona — " once," in the language of Dr. Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is merely the Celtic term I-thona, (the th not pronounced,) signifying the Isle of Waves.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 σελίδες
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than "I am capable ol doing: " 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 be... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 σελίδες
...Islands," on occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill, the ancient lona : — " We are 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... | |
 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 σελίδες
...unconnected with the present subject. " We were now," he says, " treading that illustrious " island (lona) which was once the luminary of the " Caledonian regions,...benefits of knowledge, and the " blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all " local emotion would be impossible, if it were endea" voured, and would... | |
 | 1834 - 536 σελίδες
...excited in his breast, by the prospect of lona, affords unquestionable proof. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits »f knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be... | |
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