 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 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... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...in Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the Hebrides" : " 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... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1838 - 702 pages
...that Dr. Johnson thus eloquently wrote : ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...barbarians derived the Benefits of knowledge, and the blessngs of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be mpossible if it were endeavoured,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 560 pages
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 | James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 558 pages
...he felt on visiting this celebrated spot : " 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... | |
 | Henry Joseph Monck Mason - Ireland - 1838 - 212 pages
...feelings, upon seeing a spot so renowned — describing it as "that illustrious island, " which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, • whence savage clans and roving barbarians received the "benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." This, especially when his jealousy... | |
 | William Jones - Church history - 1838 - 568 pages
...that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans nml roving barbarians derived the 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... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 730 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 clans and roving barbarians de* Mr. Daniell's splendid work, " A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain," contains several excellent... | |
 | Christian education - 1839 - 920 pages
...difficulty effected, the doctor proceeds : " 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 endeavored ; and would... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1925 - 906 pages
...its annals which rose in Johnson's mind when he described it as ' that illustrious island which waa once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion.' But neither piety nor learning availed to save it from the ravages of the fierce and heathen Norsemen.... | |
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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... 
