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
| Scottish tourist - 1832 - 490 páginas
...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... | |
| Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 530 páginas
...not all. Johnson seldom uttered a more weighty sentence of moral wisdom than when he taught, that, " whatever withdraws us " from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the dis" tant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in " the dignity of thinking beings."... | |
| Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 360 páginas
...off the south-west point of Mull : this has been termed " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." It was in the sixth century the place where Columba, an Irish saint, first propagated the Christian... | |
| 1834 - 536 páginas
...lona, affords unquestionable proof. " 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 »f knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 602 páginas
...that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage dans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge...Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whdtey,e,r makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in... | |
| Great Britain. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - 1836 - 416 páginas
...these islands. Well, therefore, might Dr. Johnson term lona " the luminary of the Caledonian region, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The fact is more extensively true than that great writer himself expected, for he was not profoundly... | |
| University magazine - 1848 - 792 páginas
...question that lona deserves the eloquent compliment bestowed upon it hy Dr. Johnson, of being " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." But there is also truth in what another elegant writer, Doctor Macculloeh, says — that the descriptions... | |
| 1837 - 236 páginas
...spirit-stirring to those visiting the spot — " We are now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were... | |
| James Boswell - 1910 - 548 páginas
...been just, to have preserved it. b "WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and wonld be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever... | |
| Charles Sears Baldwin - 1911 - 392 páginas
...movement and to deliberative mood. We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,... | |
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