 | John Caird - Christian life - 1906 - 282 pages
...wellknown words of the great moralist when visiting our own country : " We were now treading," he writes, " that illustrious island which was once the luminary...emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and foolish if it were possible. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as would conduct... | |
 | Classical Association (Great Britain). Manchester and district branch - Castles - 1906 - 238 pages
...experiences the same feelings which prompted Dr. Johnson's famous rapture about his visit to lona : "To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...Serventur leges, malint a Cscsare tolli. ION A. [From A Journey to On Wattrn Isles of Scotland (1776)] We were now treading that illustrious Island, which...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving 6 barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 634 pages
...afterwards Mrs. Barbauld, in a volume of miscellaneous pieces by her and Dr. Aikin in 1773.—Croker.] J " We were now treading that illustrious island which...emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, *nd would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 730 pages
...having been uncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. 2 " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of his own style being exceedingly dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1909 - 834 pages
...of the sixth century. We shall find that model on little lona, which Dr. Samuel Johnson described as "that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Wherein did the institute of lona, and others of its order, differ from the monasteries which became... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1909 - 390 pages
...upon Latin derivatives which are appropriate alike to deliberate movement and to deliberative mood. We were now treading that illustrious island which...from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1909 - 798 pages
...of the sixth century. We shall find that model on little lona. which Dr. Samuel Johnson described as "that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Wherein did the institute of lona, and others of its order, differ from the monasteries which became... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1852
...nncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it.— BOSWELL. < " We were now treading that illustrious island, -which was once the luminary of the ian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of dry and hard, he disapproved... | |
 | Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1909 - 432 pages
...«ill endure as long as the English language is spoken— "Wo were now treading t lint illufftrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clan* and roving barbarians derived the benefit« of knowledge and the blessing« of religion. . .... | |
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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... 
