 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible* Whatever withdraws... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...illustrious island, which -was once the luminary of the Caledonian rep-ions, whence savage clang and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge', and the blessings of religion. 6. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of that division of Arabia, which for the luxury of its soil,... | |
 | James Playfair - Scotland - 1819 - 462 pages
...illustrious island, ' which was once the seminary of ' the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving ' barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the ' blessings of religion. ' Staffa, about 8 miles northward of lona, and as far west of Loch-na-gaul, an islet on the coast of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pages
...illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were, endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatingly dry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 424 pages
...illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - Architecture - 1820 - 230 pages
...those learned seminaries for which Ireland had been long so justly famous, " whence savage septs and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," and reduced the people and the country to that stale of moral and political degradation, from which,... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - Scotland - 1821 - 378 pages
...perilous whirlpools of Corry vreckan,— or that once famous and holy island, " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." The city of PERTH, besides the attractions which its own rich and beautiful environs possess, is the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 458 pages
...illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
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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... 
