 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 halaman
...forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 halaman
...Icolmkill : 6 but his own style being exceedingly dry and hard, he disapproved of ' " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 halaman
...forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 halaman
...forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be... | |
 | James Playfair - 1819 - 462 halaman
...may be traced. Such is the present state of that illustrious island, ' which was once the seminary of ' the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 halaman
...forced very near the dry ground, and our highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 halaman
...Blair, even supposing bin criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. 2 " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion being exceedingly dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - 1821 - 378 halaman
...of Fingal, — the perilous whirlpools of Corry vreckan,— or that once famous and holy island, " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." The city of PERTH, besides the attractions which its own rich and beautiful environs possess, is the... | |
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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... 
