 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - Clergy - 1829 - 700 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 bar2 G 2 barians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...'Journey to tlie Isles.' We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of tho + blessing of religion. To abstract the mind from ail local emotion wuilld be impossible if it were endeavoured,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " 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 be... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " 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 be... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...this topic by our great British moralist:— " 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 he impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 480 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...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical establishment upon the island... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. 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. 2. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of that division of Arabia, which, for the luxury of its soil... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...the southern extremity of Mull, lies the famous lona — " once," in the language of Dr. Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is merely the Celtic term I-thona, (the th not pronounced,) signifying the Isle of Waves.... | |
 | Scottish tourist - Scotland - 1832 - 490 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...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical establishment upon the island... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...arrival at Icolmkill, the ancient lona : — " We are 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... | |
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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... 
