 | 1823 - 862 pages
...bat celebrated island, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions (as Dr Johnson expresses it), whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is derived from a Hebrew word signifying a dove, in allusion to his patron Columba, who... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 pages
...mind, and the moment we landed, no less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — * We were now treading that illustrious island, which...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clansand roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 pages
...Our boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...Our boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | 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...benefits of 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...uncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "We were now treading that illustrious island which...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 pages
...and abused by quotation, still continues to be one of the most affecting in our literature : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 pages
...Douglas. — " I must confess that I do not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | Jean Rodolphe Peyran - 1826 - 620 pages
...admitted by a late 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...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," observes, " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured,... | |
 | William Otter - 1827 - 544 pages
...moment we landed, no less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — ' We were noiv treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving harbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
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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... 
