 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...MEMBER.* RULE Til.— The penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge', and the blessings of religion. 2. Mahomet was a native of Mecca, a city of... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...the southern extremity of Mull, lies the famous lona — " once," in the language of Dr. Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is merely the Celtic term I-thona,... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1832 - 490 pages
...Waves." This small, but celebrated island, " was once," to use the memorable words of Dr Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Before the introduction of Christianity, it is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...shall quote his words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than "I am capable ol doing: " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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 Montgomery - 1833 - 528 pages
...Tour to the Western Islands," on occasion of his arrival at Icolmkill, the ancient lona: — " We are now treading that illustrious island, which was once...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... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...records the emotions excited in his breast, by the prospect of lona, affords unquestionable proof. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits »f knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 360 pages
...the world. The island of Icolmkill lies off the south-west point of Mull : this has been termed " the illustrious island, which was once the luminary of...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." It was in the sixth century the place where Columba,... | |
 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 pages
...unconnected with the present subject. " We were now," he says, " treading that illustrious " island (lona) 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 pages
...Johnson's celebrated allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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 - 1835 - 374 pages
...quote his words, as conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : — " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
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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... 
