 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 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 - 1825 - 728 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... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - 408 pages
...celebrated island ; " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions," as Dr. Johnson expresses it : " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...knowledge, and the blessings of religion." .- ~ It is three miles long, and from half a mile to a mile broad. On the east side it is flat ; in the middle... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...just, to have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "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... | |
 | Jean Rodolphe Peyran - Protestantism - 1826 - 620 pages
...eloquent author,* who, in allusion to the island of lona, one of the Hebrides, as an island " which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," observes, " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured,... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Socialism - 1826 - 294 pages
...the kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' 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 emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 pages
...the most affecting in our literature : — " 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 emotions would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | William Otter - Mineralogists - 1827 - 544 pages
...broke forth in the following words : — ' We were noiv treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving harbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1828 - 924 pages
...world. " We were now treading," says Dr. Johnson, speaking of lona, " 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 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... | |
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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... 
