 | Early English newspapers - 1823 - 750 pages
...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...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 - Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822 - 1824 - 700 pages
...mind, and the moment we landed, no less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — * We were now treading that illustrious island, which...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clansand roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...Our boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 pages
...Our boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - 408 pages
...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 pages
...uncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "We were now treading that illustrious island which...religion. 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... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 pages
...and abused by quotation, still continues to be one of the most affecting in our literature : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which...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... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Socialism - 1826 - 294 pages
...Douglas. — " I must confess that I do not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | Jean Rodolphe Peyran - Protestantism - 1826 - 620 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
