 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...roving 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... | |
 | 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...roving 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 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1835 - 312 pages
...JOHNSONIANA : No. II. LOCAL EMOTION; OR, DR. JOHNSON'S EXCLAMATIONS ON LANDING AT ICOMKILL. " 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... | |
 | 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...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion, would be impossible, if it... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pages
...tho more Though from afar, his steps adore ! [Abridged from BISIIOI- MAST'S Bril'uh ICOI.MKILL. — 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 be impossible, if it were... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 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...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage dans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
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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... 
