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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... "
Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Typographical ... - Page 119
by Robert Stuart - 1854
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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland: And Boswell's Journal ...

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...
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Kindness to the Dead: And Other Discourses. In Memorium

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...
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Devotional Classics: Martha Upton Lectures Delivered at Manchester College ...

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...
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Transactions, Volume 31

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...
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New English Composition ...

Edwin Lillie Miller - English language - 1929 - 290 pages
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The Life of Samuel Johnson,L.L.D.

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1931 - 1260 pages
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The Distribution of University Centres in Britain: A Plea for the Highlands ...

Hugh Gunn - Gaelic language - 1931 - 146 pages
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