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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... "
Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Typographical ... - Page 119
by Robert Stuart - 1854
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The Boswellian Hero

William C. Dowling - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 226 pages
...Western Islands which Boswell at one point introduces into his own narrative, a meditation on lona, " 'whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or...
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Secret Landscapes: Mysterious Sites, Deserted Villages, and Forgotten Places ...

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Michael Hales - Reference - 1980 - 216 pages
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Secret Landscapes: Mysterious Sites, Deserted Villages, and Forgotten Places ...

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Michael Hales - Reference - 1980 - 216 pages
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In the Footsteps of Johnson and Boswell

Israel Shenker - History - 1982 - 306 pages
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A Journey to the Western Isles: Johnson's Scottish Journey

Samuel Johnson, Finlay J. Macdonald - Travel - 1983 - 218 pages
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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 15

James E. Person, Jr. - Baroque literature - 1991 - 488 pages
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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Volume 15

James E. Person - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 488 pages
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1985 - 448 pages
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Held in Trust: The National Trust for Scotland

Iain Crawford - Architecture - 1986 - 192 pages
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101 Great Scots

Allan Massie - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 320 pages
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