 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 400 pages
...Whether it is now inhabited we could not ftay to inquire. At laft we came to Icolmkill, but found no convenience for landing. Our boat could not be forced...carried us over the water. . We were now treading that illuftrious Ifland, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence favage clans and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 280 pages
...Whether it is now inhabited we could not flay to inquire. At laft we came to Icolmkill, but found no convenience for landing. Our boat could not be forced...ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. \Ve were' now treading that illuftrious Ifland, •which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...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 was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 550 pages
...Whether it is now inhabited we could not ftay to enquire. At laft we came to Icolmkill, but found no convenience for landing. Our boat could not be forced...carried us over the water. We were now treading that illuftrious ifland, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence favage clans and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...Whether it is now inhabited we could not ftay to enquire. At laft we came to Icolmkill, but found no convenience for landing. Our boat could not be forced...carried us over the water. We were now treading that iliuftrious ifland, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence favage clans and... | |
 | John Knox - 1787 - 566 pages
...of the Hebride IJlandsi by DR. JOHNSON. AT laft we came to ICOLMKILL, but found no con**• venience for landing. Our boat could not be forced very near...carried us over the water. We were now treading that illuftrlous Ifland, which ^/ was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence favage Clans and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 258 pages
...Whether it is now inhabited we could not ftay to inquire. At laft we came to Icolmkill, but found no convenience for landing. Our boat could not be forced...ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence. favage clans anti i.oving barbarians... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 pages
...we passed, to note the serieis of this placid navigation. At last we came to Icolmkill, but found no convenience for landing. Our boat could not be forced...our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were very near an Island, called Nun's Island, perhaps from an ancient convent. Here is said to have been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...Whether it is now inhabited we could not ftay to enquire. At laft wecame to Icolmkill, but found no convenience for landing. Our boat could not be forced...carried us over the water. We were now treading that illuflrious ifland, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence favage clans and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...Whether it is now inhabited we could not ftay to enquire. At laft we came to Icolmkill, but found no convenience for landing. Our boat could not be forced...carried us over the water. We were now treading that illuftrious ifland, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence favage clans and... | |
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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... 
