...recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " 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...

...[Reflections on Landing at lona.] [From the * Journey to the Western Isles.1] We were now treading cloak, And stole to the other side of the oak. What...There she sees a damsel bright, Dressed in a silken benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...

...[Reflection» on Landing at lona.'] [From the ' Journey to the Western Isles.'] We were now treading g on As in a gentle weather ; 'Twas night, calm night,...wiitóí The dead men stood together. All stood together ileriveil the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local...

...Hebrides," remember his famous passage, from which the writer of the volume before us has taken his motto, " That illustrious island, which was once the luminary...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and raving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." This number materially...

...small island has been rendered famous on account of having once been, 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." There is also much reason to believe that " this...

...derivatives which are appropriate alike to deliberate movement and to deliberative mood. 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...

...abode of Columba, the missionary of the West. It is described in a famous sentence of Dr. Johnson as " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." There is a Gaelic proverb that he who goes to...

...through every summer, a company like this descends on this barren strand to behold what Johnson calls "that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion." A more interesting or laudable excursion the power...

...eighth was hardly second to any monastery in the British Isles. It was then, as Dr Johnson said, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." But events, as we have seen, made lona unsafe....

...his finest (if now most hackneyed) apostrophes on Iona: " We are now treading that illustrious isle 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 would...