 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 pages
...illustrious " island (lona) 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 would be impossible, if it were endea" voured, and would... | |
 | 1835 - 312 pages
...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 would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; and would... | |
 | 1835 - 454 pages
...that illustrious island, which was ouce 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, would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; and would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 pages
...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 would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...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 would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | 1835 - 284 pages
...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 would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | 1835 - 272 pages
...that illustrious island, which wag onco tho 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 would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 pages
...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 would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...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 would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Great Britain. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - 1836 - 416 pages
...therefore, might Dr. Johnson term lona " the luminary of the Caledonian region, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The fact is more extensively true than that great writer himself expected, for he was not profoundly versed... | |
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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. 
