 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1842 - 598 strani
...well-known passage records the emotions excited in the breast of Dr. Johnson by the prospect of lona. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion wonld be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | James Wilson - 1842 - 562 strani
...later all must be partakers, should have changed or chilled a feeble human heart. This region of ruins, once the " luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," is indeed a solemn place, though now too well known, both from good and bad descriptions, to excuse... | |
 | George Anderson (of Inverness.), Peter Anderson - 1842 - 750 strani
...Island — lona, Ithona, " the Island of the Waves,"— Icolmkill— the Isle of Columba's Cell, — whence " savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," is situated about nine miles to the south-east of Staffa, and is separated from Mull by a narrow but... | |
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 strani
...of eloquence which is, in our opmion, you know, the finest in all the Johnsonian declamations : — "We were now treading that illustrious island which...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1843 - 558 strani
...according to some writers, is tile meaning of the term lona.— See Cornel!'* Tan,- in the JligUamh, t "We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions. That man is little lo be envied, whore pnlriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,... | |
 | Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 strani
...from the summits of Ben Nevis and Ben Lomond — I have visited the " illustrious island from which savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Yes, amid the ruins of lona " 1 have learned to abjure that frigid philosophy which would conduct us... | |
 | John Miley - 1843 - 382 strani
...efficere potest."* . ••:•:•• * InPtxf. ••.•rWV. •• June 4, 1843. \ •« • BOOK I. " 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 Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1844 - 376 strani
...influence of recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 strani
...censure or from praise. [Reflection» on Landing at lona.'] [From the ' Journey to the Western Isles.'] x x x x x x x x ileriveil the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local... | |
 | 1844 - 398 strani
...small island has been rendered famous on account of having once been, in the language of Dr. Johnson, "the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." There is also much reason to believe that " this isle was a sacred spot even long before it was shone... | |
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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. 
