 | James Browne - 1838 - 558 pàgines
...inflexible moralist, thus describes the emotions he felt on visiting this celebrated spot : " We were now 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... | |
 | 740 pàgines
...busy memory called up the celebrated pasRage in Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the Hebrides" : " 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... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 568 pàgines
...-recollection the following remark* on this topic by our great British moralist :— " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans nml roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1839 - 228 pàgines
...I must confess that I do not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...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... | |
 | 1839 - 920 pàgines
...discovered. After a landing had been with difficulty effected, the doctor proceeds : " 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... | |
 | 1868 - 738 pàgines
...busy memory called up the celebrated passage in Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the Hebrides": " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence aavngc clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion.... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pàgines
...they do not attend to her voice, not because they do not understand it. IV. ICOLMKILL. — 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... | |
 | Richard Murray - 1840 - 194 pàgines
...was used sometimes as a pen for cattle—sic transit gloria mundi. ' We were now,' says Dr. Johnson,' 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... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1840 - 476 pàgines
...recollections like these that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage ; — ' We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the...Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians * We refer the reader to Pennant's Towr through Scotland, and Johnson's Tour to the Hebrides,... | |
 | William Howitt - 1840 - 540 pàgines
...through every summer, a company like this descends on this barren strand, to behold what Johnson calls, " that illustrious island which was once the luminary...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion." A more interesting or laudable... | |
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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... 
