| James Playfair - 1819 - 462 halaman
...present state of that illustrious island, ' which was once the seminary of ' the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving ' barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the ' blessings of religion. ' Staffa, about 8 miles northward of lona, and as far west of Loch-na-gaul, an islet on the coast of... | |
| William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 820 halaman
...abstract the mind from all local Mon»«tie' motion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; ' and it would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, •whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
| William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 372 halaman
...mind from all local Monatiic emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; A"ti4n '"** and it would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes <he past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 halaman
...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 of religion. 6. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of that division of Arabia, which for the luxury of its soil,... | |
| William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 828 halaman
...mind from all local Monmie emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; ' " ' and it would-be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 halaman
...We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 520 halaman
...WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatingly dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent use... | |
| Thomas Cromwell - 1820 - 570 halaman
...valley, the lake of considerable extent, all increase our veneration. In a word, on viewing such a scene "to abstract the mind from all local emotion would...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances... | |
| Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1820 - 410 halaman
...nature, with the most exalted wisdom, and the most heroic virtue. It was well observed by Johnson, that " to abstract the mind from all local emotion, would...possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, — whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,... | |
| Thomas Cromwell - 1820 - 298 halaman
...of thoselearned seminaries for which Ireland had been long so justly famous, " whence savage septs and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," and reduced the people and the country to that state of moral and political degradation, from which,... | |
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