 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...shall quote his words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than "I am capable ol doing: " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 pages
...Tour to the Western Islands," on occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill, the ancient lona: — " We are now treading that illustrious island, which was once...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | 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,..." blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all " local emotion would be impossible, if it were endea" voured, and would be foolish, if it were... | |
 | 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...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." It was in the sixth century the place where Columba, an Irish saint, first propagated the Christian... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...records the emotions excited in his breast, by the prospect of lona, affords unquestionable proof. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits »f knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...Johnson's celebrated allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 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...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 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...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 pages
...Johnson's celebrated allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | 1835 - 284 pages
...records the emotions excited in his breast, by the prospect of lona, affords unquestionable proof. " Wo were now treading that illustrious island, which was...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
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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... 
