 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 pages
...allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — " 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... | |
 | 1835 - 312 pages
...No. II. LOCAL EMOTION; OR, DR. JOHNSON'S EXCLAMATIONS ON LANDING AT ICOMKILL. " 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 would... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — " 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... | |
 | 1835 - 454 pages
...beautiful reflections on visiting lona ?—'* We were now treading that illustrious island, which was ouce 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,... | |
 | 1835 - 272 pages
...lona, affords unquestionable proof. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which wag onco tho 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — ":We were now treading 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... | |
 | 1837 - 236 pages
...finest in the English language, and spirit-stirring to those visiting the spot — " We are now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 pages
...no question that lona deserves the eloquent compliment bestowed 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... | |
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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... 
