 | Adam Potkay - Happiness - 2000 - 276 pages
...Johnson's journey comes in his visit to the moldering churches on lona, "that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion" (148). (The monastery that St. Columba founded on lona in 563 provided the center from which missionaries... | |
 | Jennifer Speake - Travel - 2003 - 540 pages
...church profaned and hastening to the ground." At Icolmkill, Johnson rises magnificently to the occasion: "Once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion . . . That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 174 pages
...Johnson who found words appropriate to the place. 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 . . . That man is little to be envied. . . . whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.166... | |
 | C. Adams - 2006 - 356 pages
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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... 
