 | James Townley - Bible - 1828 - 398 pages
...one of the Hebrides ; " once the Luminary of the Caledonian regions," (as Dr. Johnson calls it,) " whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion!" — In this seminary- which might justly have been denominated a MISSIONARY COLLEGE, the students spent... | |
 | 1828 - 546 pages
...composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | Religion - 1828 - 648 pages
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 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1828 - 698 pages
...composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | Religion - 1828 - 586 pages
...the following celebrated passage. " ' We were now treading that illustrious island which wits > nee the luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | 1828 - 452 pages
...needless to inform the reader that this is, as Johnson expresses it, " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barba* rians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion ;" that it was, in the... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1829 - 146 pages
...interspersed through his writings. " We are now treading," he says, " 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 emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...hishop's house. 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.' At Sandwich, in Ross-shire, is a curious obelisk, but of a more recent date than those abovementioned.... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - Clergy - 1829 - 376 pages
...composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion 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... 
