 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...recollection the following remarks on this topic by our great British moralist:— " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...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... | |
 | 1831 - 480 pages
...Waves." This small, but celebrated island, " was once," to use the memorable words of Dr Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge', and the blessings of religion. 2. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1832 - 490 pages
...Waves." This small, but celebrated island, " was once," to use the memorable words of Dr Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...the southern extremity of Mull, lies the famous lona — " once," in the language of Dr. Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is merely the Celtic term I-thona,... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pages
...Western Islands," on occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill, the ancient lona : — " We are now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of 'religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than "I am capable ol doing: " We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...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... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...excited in his breast, by the prospect of lona, affords unquestionable proof. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits »f knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 360 pages
...the world. The island of Icolmkill lies off the south-west point of Mull : this has been termed " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." It was in the sixth century the place where Columba,... | |
 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 pages
...unconnected with the present subject. " We were now," he says, " treading that 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... | |
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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... 
