 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...eloquent passages Which dwell on the memory, the reflection that introduces the account of Icobnkilt, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barharians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," is remarkable for its... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...exceedingly dry and hard, he disapproved of ' " 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 endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 432 pages
...our Highlanders carried us over the water. 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 endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...our Highlanders carried us over the water. 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 endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...our Highlanders carried us over the water. 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 endeavoured, and would... | |
 | James Playfair - Scotland - 1819 - 462 pages
...may be traced. Such is the present state of that illustrious island, ' which was once the seminary of ' the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and...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... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...sentiments of the profoundest awe and reverence. " We were " now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of " the Caledonian regions, whence...roving barbarians, " derived the benefits of knowledge, anil the blessings of religion. Fitr " from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - Tullaroan (Ireland : Parish) - 1819 - 372 pages
...not ashamed to avow ; " we are now treading (says doctor Johnson) that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the knowledge and the blessings of (he Parliamentary records, and Bermingham toner records, now deposited... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - Ireland - 1819 - 820 pages
...ashamed to avow ; '• we are now treading (says doctor Johnson) that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the knowledge and the blessing* of the Parliamentary record!, and Bermiogbam lower r«cord«, no* jr. posited... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...that 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,... | |
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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... 
