 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...were now treading that illustriou» island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
 | James Montgomery - English literature - 1833 - 488 pages
...We are now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 348 pages
...We are 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 would be impossible, if it were endeavoured;... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 360 pages
...this has been termed " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - Arundel (England) - 1834 - 644 pages
...treading that illustrious " island (lona) which was once the luminary of the " Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving " barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the " blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all " local emotion would be impossible, if it were endea" voured, and would... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 372 pages
...We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 374 pages
...We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
 | 1835 - 312 pages
...WE are now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...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... | |
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once the luminary of the Caledonian regions," as Dr. Johnson expresses it ; " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. 
