 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 halaman
...in our opmion, you know, the finest in all the Johnsonian declamations : — "We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...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... | |
 | Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 halaman
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 halaman
...[Reflections on Landing at lona.] [From the * Journey to the Western Isles.1] We were now treading cloak, And stole to the other side of the oak. What...There she sees a damsel bright, Dressed in a silken abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish... | |
 | 1844 - 398 halaman
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 414 halaman
...Though peal'd the bells from the holy pile With long and measured toll;' 1 [" 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 halaman
...humble, most obedient servant — SAM. JOHNSON. Reflections on Landing at lona. 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... | |
 | Samuel Fox - 1845 - 500 halaman
...eloquently expressed by Dr. Johnson, when visiting the far-famed ruins of lona: " 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 halaman
...penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge', and the blessings of religion. 2. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of that division of Arabia, which, for the luxury of its soil... | |
 | Martin Wilson Foye - 1845 - 122 halaman
...his zeal and piety. " We were now" says the English sage, " treading that illustrious island, (lona) which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions;...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." " That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not glow in the plains of Marathon, or whose... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1845 - 522 halaman
..." Island of Waves." This small but celebrated island, to use the memorable words of Dr. Johnson, " was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is said there was a druidical establishment upon the island... | |
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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... 
