 | 740 pages
...called up the celebrated pasRage in Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the Hebrides" : " 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... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 pages
...this spot in the eighteenth century that Dr. Johnson thus eloquently wrote : ' 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 blessngs of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 558 pages
...moralist, thus describes the emotions he felt on visiting this celebrated spot : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...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... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 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 would... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 568 pages
...-recollection the following remark* on this topic by our great British moralist :— " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans nml roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | 1838 - 730 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 de* Mr. Daniell's splendid work, " A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain," contains several excellent... | |
 | 1839 - 920 pages
...discovered. After a landing had been with difficulty effected, the doctor proceeds : " 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... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1839 - 228 pages
...confess that I do not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving harbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | 1868 - 738 pages
...memory called up the celebrated passage in Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the Hebrides": " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence aavngc clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion.... | |
 | Richard Murray - 1840 - 194 pages
...sometimes as a pen for cattle—sic transit gloria mundi. ' We were now,' says Dr. Johnson,' treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions,... | |
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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... 
