 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...scholar will call to recollection the following remarks on this topic by our great British moralist:— " We were now treading that illustrious island which...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible if it were... | |
 | 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...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...MEMBER.* RULE Til.— The penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge', and the blessings of religion. 2. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of that division of Arabia, which,... | |
 | 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...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is merely the Celtic term I-thona, (the th not pronounced,)... | |
 | 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...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical... | |
 | 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...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were... | |
 | 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...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." It was in the sixth century the place where Columba, an Irish saint, first... | |
 | 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,...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the " blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all " local emotion would be impossible, if... | |
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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... 
