 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...  The Saturday Magazine - Página 821835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | David Stewart - 1822 - 658 páginas
...the Kinge tolde forth in English*, to the people, what it was he said or niccnt." Fol. 22G. VOL. I. B of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 páginas
...been just, to have preserved it. 6 " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent use of metaphorical... | |
 | 1823 - 750 páginas
...p. 5Q4, is a small but celebrated island, and was, as Dr. Johnson expresses it, " once the lumirutry of the Caledonian Regions, whence savage clans and...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of Religion." ]n this Island, and in this most celebrated seat of Religion, was the learned St. Cuthbert educated... | |
 | 1823 - 862 páginas
...bat celebrated island, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions (as Dr Johnson expresses it), whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is derived from a Hebrew word signifying a dove, in allusion to his patron Columba, who... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 páginas
...that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clansand roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion * He was drowned, a few months after Dr. Johnson's departure, off the rocks of Col ; owing to a sudden... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 páginas
...Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever inakea the past the distant or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - 408 páginas
...celebrated island ; " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions," as Dr. Johnson expresses it : " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." .- ~ It is three miles long, and from half a mile to a mile broad. On the east side it is flat ; in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 páginas
...have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions; whence savage...To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 páginas
...kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 páginas
...affecting in our literature : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever... | |
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