 | James Townley - 1828 - 398 pages
...one of the Hebrides ; " once the Luminary of the Caledonian regions," (as Dr. Johnson calls it,) " whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion!" — In this seminary- which might justly have been denominated a MISSIONARY... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1829 - 146 pages
...of feeling which are so often interspersed through his writings. " We are now treading," he says, " that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. TO abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1829 - 376 pages
...influence of recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...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 - 1829 - 700 pages
...influence of recollections like these that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...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... | |
 | 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...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion.' At Sandwich, in Ross-shire, is a curious obelisk, but of a more recent... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1829 - 428 pages
...and grandeur. It was respecting lona that Dr. Johnson wrote the following celebrated passage : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of i lie Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans and roving barbarians denved the benefit of knowledge,... | |
 | 1830 - 716 pages
...apostrophising language, on landing on the island of lona, the cemetery of the Kings of Scotland. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...from censure or from praise, Inflections on Lamling at lona. — From t?M 'Journey to tlie Isles.' der r } + tho Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pages
...shall quote his words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pages
...shall quote his words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
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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... 
