 | William Jones - 1838 - 568 ページ
...that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans nml 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 endeavoured, and would be foolish... | |
 | 1839 - 920 ページ
...discovered. After a landing had been with difficulty effected, the doctor proceeds : " 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 endeavored ; and would be... | |
 | 1868 - 738 ページ
...treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence aavngc clans and 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 endeavoured, and would be foolish... | |
 | William King Tweedie - 1840 - 278 ページ
...exclaimed, "That man is little to be envied .... whose piety does not grow warmer among the ruins of lona .... that illustrious island which was once the...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." We have said little regarding the encouragement which lona gave to science, or the stimulus to study... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 ページ
...attend to her voice, not because they do not understand it. IV. ICOLMKILL. — 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1841 - 410 ページ
...Though peal'd the bells from the holy pile With long and measured toll;1 1 [" 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... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 ページ
...village of Icolmkill. Dr. Johnson calls it " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence," he adds, " savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." The bishop's seat was at Rushin, or Castletown, in the isle of Man, and in Latin is entitled Sodorensis.... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 ページ
...records the emotions excited in the breast of Dr. Johnson by the prospect of lona. " 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 wonld be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | James Wilson - 1842 - 562 ページ
...later all must be partakers, should have changed or chilled a feeble human heart. This region of ruins, once the " luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," is indeed a solemn place, though now too well known, both from good and bad descriptions, to excuse... | |
 | George Anderson (of Inverness.), Peter Anderson - 1842 - 750 ページ
...Island — lona, Ithona, " the Island of the Waves,"— Icolmkill— the Isle of Columba's Cell, — whence " savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," is situated about nine miles to the south-east of Staffa, and is separated from Mull by a narrow but... | |
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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... 
