...to us in ever clearer tones of manifold 1 ' We were now treading that illustrious island, once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...

...forcibly than I am capable of doing : ' WE were now treading that illusjiifiu.s_Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstracythe mind from_ all loca) amptign would be imppssible, if it were endeavoured^ an3 wpuld hp...

...cf Johnsonese: — " We are now," he says, ' ' treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, 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...

...an epitome of the History of England during that period. Says Dr. Johnson in a well known passage : "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, and distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."...

...although on a smaller scale and without its attendant evils. That island became, as Dr Johnson says, "the luminary of the Caledonian' regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the blessings of religion." It was the centre of a great missionary work, exhibiting the Christian life...

...paslages which dwell on the memory, the reflection that introduces the account of Icolmkill, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," is remarkable for its piety, pathos, and sublimity. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...

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

...comes in his visit to the moldering churches on lona, "that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion" (148). (The monastery that St. Columba founded on lona in 563 provided the center from which missionaries...

...Investigations (Wittgenstein): Let's not quibble about words. Philosophy in the Bedroom (Sade): Whatever removes us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the future, or the distant predominant over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings....

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