 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
