 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pages
...not be 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...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...at 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...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...not be 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...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1817 - 162 pages
...its beauty. A very remarkable marble quarry is that of Icolmkil, or lona, " that illustrious island, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." Syenitic rocks constitute the leading feature of this mansion of the dead, but at the south west point... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 pages
...not be 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...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | Thomas Tait (of Belford.) - 1818 - 64 pages
...western islands of Scotland. " That illustrious island," says Dr Johnson in his Tour to the Hebrides, " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessing of religion." When Oswald succeeded to the throne, it was his first care and chief study to... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...most expressive, breathes out the sentiments of the profoundest awe and reverence. " We were " now treading that illustrious island, which was once the...savage clans, and roving barbarians, " derived the benefits of knowledge, anil the blessings of religion. Fitr " from me, and from my friends, be such... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 820 pages
...of the greatest of mankind was not ashamed to avow ; '• we are now treading (says doctor Johnson) that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the knowledge and the blessing* of the Parliamentary record!, and Bermiogbam lower r«cord«, no* jr. posited... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 372 pages
...one of the greatest of mankind was not ashamed to avow ; " we are now treading (says doctor Johnson) that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the knowledge and the blessings of (he Parliamentary records, and Bermingham toner records, now deposited... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 828 pages
...mankind was not ashamed to avow : '• we are now treading (says doctor Johnson) tLat illustrious bland which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving1 barbarian? derived the knowledge and the blessings of I be Pirlmmentiry records, and Bcrmingbnm... | |
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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... 
