...prefer." But busy memory called up the celebrated passage in Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the Hebrides": " We were now treading that illustrious island which...once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence aavngc clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion....

...familiar to the ear as one of the choicest examples cf Johnsonese: — " We are now," he says, ' ' treading that illustrious island which was once the...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived tEe benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion." And again there is this fine sentence at the...

...eloquent paslages which dwell on the memory, the reflection that introduces the account of Icolmkill, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," is remarkable for its piety, pathos, and sublimity. " To abstract the mind...

...Western Islands which Boswell at one point introduces into his own narrative, a meditation on lona, " 'whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes...

...contemplated through the journey from the first sights of ruined cathedrals in St. Andrews and Aberbrothick: We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledoman regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and...

...time in an attitude of silent admiration. 34 The sublime passage which left Banks speechless was this: 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...

...superstition."5 The emotional climax of Johnson's journey comes in his visit to the moldering churches on lona, "that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion" (148). (The monastery that St. Columba founded on lona in 563 provided the...

...church profaned and hastening to the ground." At Icolmkill, Johnson rises magnificently to the occasion: "Once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion . . . That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force...

...Columba preached the gospel to the Scots. It was Johnson who found words appropriate to the place. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion . . . That man is little to be envied. . . . whose piety would not grow warmer...