 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pàgines
...with fervent heat ; the earth also, and the works' that are therein, shall be burnt up. 5. We were now treading that illustrious island, which -was once the luminary of the Caledonian rep-ions, whence savage clang and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge', and the blessings... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 pàgines
...not be forced very near the dry ground, and our highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 418 pàgines
...island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion being exceedingly dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pàgines
...uncandid in Blair, even supposing bin criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. 2 " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pàgines
...where something of more than usual importance is to be presented. ' Illustrious ! ' * " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | David Stewart - 1822 - 552 pàgines
...the associations naturally arising from the sight of this celebrated spot. " We were now," says he, " treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 pàgines
...the moment we landed, no less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — * We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...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 - 622 pàgines
...not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pàgines
...not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 pàgines
...by quotation, still continues to be one of the most affecting in our literature : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
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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... 
