| William Jones - 1831 - 570 pągines
...to recollection the following remarks on this topic by our great British moralist:— " 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 - 1831 - 586 pągines
...words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " 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... | |
| Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 282 pągines
...own time, remain as he left them. On entering them, who does not remember his own grand sentence ? " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ! Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
| Robert Montgomery - 1831 - 338 pągines
...own time, remain as he left them. On entering them, who does not remember his own grand sentence ? " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ! Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pągines
...Til.— The penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. 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. 2. Mahomet was a native... | |
| James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 pągines
...the Western Islands," on occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill, the ancient lona : — " We are 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pągines
...words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than "I am capable ol doing: " 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... | |
| 1834 - 536 pągines
...emotions excited in his breast, by the prospect of lona, affords unquestionable proof. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits »f knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind... | |
| Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 360 pągines
...the world. The island of Icolmkill lies off the south-west point of Mull : this has been termed " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." It was in the sixth century... | |
| Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 pągines
...unconnected with the present subject. " We were now," he says, " treading that illustrious " island (lona) 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... | |
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