 | Jean Rodolphe Peyran - 1826 - 620 ページ
...admitted by a late eloquent author,* who, in allusion to the island of lona, one of the Hebrides, as an island " which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," observes, " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured,... | |
 | 1828 - 924 ページ
...the history of their country or of the world. " We were now treading," says Dr. Johnson, speaking of lona, " that illustrious island which was once the...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | James Townley - 1828 - 398 ページ
...one of the Hebrides ; " once the Luminary of the Caledonian regions," (as Dr. Johnson calls it,) " whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion!" — In this seminary- which might justly have been denominated a MISSIONARY COLLEGE, the students spent... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1829 - 146 ページ
...of feeling which are so often interspersed through his writings. " We are now treading," he says, " that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. TO abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 ページ
...hishop's house. Such is the present state of that illustrious island, ' which was once the seminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion.' At Sandwich, in Ross-shire, is a curious obelisk, but of a more recent date than those abovementioned.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 ページ
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 ページ
...recollection the following remarks on this topic by our great British moralist:— " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 ページ
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish... | |
 | 1831 - 480 ページ
...Waves." This small, but celebrated island, " was once," to use the memorable words of Dr Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical establishment upon the island... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 ページ
...penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge', and the blessings of religion. 2. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of that division of Arabia, which, for the luxury of its soil... | |
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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... 
