 | Scotland - 1838 - 730 pages
...Waves." This small but celebrated island, " was once," to use the memorable words of Dr. Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians de* Mr. Daniell's splendid work, " A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain," contains several excellent... | |
 | Christian education - 1839 - 920 pages
...difficulty effected, the doctor proceeds : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavored ; and would... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1925 - 906 pages
...its annals which rose in Johnson's mind when he described it as ' that illustrious island which waa once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion.' But neither piety nor learning availed to save it from the ravages of the fierce and heathen Norsemen.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...more forcibly than I am capable of doing : ' WE were now treading that illusjiifiu.s_Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstracythe mind from_ all loca) amptign would be imppssible, if it were endeavoured^ an3 wpuld... | |
 | James Cooper - Sermons, English - 1924 - 160 pages
...past, spoke to us in ever clearer tones of manifold 1 ' We were now treading that illustrious island, once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...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 MacLuckie Connell - Devotional literature - 1924 - 170 pages
..." We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of Caledonian religions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1927 - 436 pages
...examples cf Johnsonese: — " We are now," he says, ' ' treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived tEe benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion." And again there is this fine sentence at the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...eloquent paslages which dwell on the memory, the reflection that introduces the account of Icolmkill, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," is remarkable for its piety, pathos, and sublimity. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | William C. Dowling - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 226 pages
...Western Islands which Boswell at one point introduces into his own narrative, a meditation on lona, " 'whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...Aberbrothick: We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledoman regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians...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... | |
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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... 
