 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage dans 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 Cleland - 1837 - 172 pages
...summits of Ben Nevis and Ben Lomond— I have visited the " illustrious island from which savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." (Cheers.) Yes, amid the ruins of lona " I have learned to abjure that frigid philosophy which would... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 pages
...upon it hy Dr. Johnson, of being " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." But there is also truth in what another elegant writer, Doctor Macculloeh, says — that the descriptions... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 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... | |
 | 740 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... | |
 | William Jones - 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... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1839 - 516 pages
...would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona — that illustrious island, from which savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion ;" any man who can feel may rationally give way to all his feelings at Bedford bridge, where the GLORIOUS... | |
 | 1868 - 738 pages
...that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence aavngc 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... | |
 | 1839 - 920 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 endeavored ; and would... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 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... | |
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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. 
