 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever...withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever inakea the past the distant or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 416 pages
...uncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "We were now treading that illustrious island which...To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1826 - 330 pages
...and abused by quotation, still continues to be one of the most affecting in our literature : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 pages
...Douglas. — " I must confess that I do not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever... | |
 | Jean Rodolphe Peyran - 1826 - 620 pages
...admitted by a late eloquent author,* who, in allusion to the island of lona, one of the Hebrides, as an island " which was once the luminary of the Caledonian...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," observes, " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured,... | |
 | William Otter - 1827 - 544 pages
...moment we landed, no less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — ' We were noiv treading that illustrious island, which was once the...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving harbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from... | |
 | 1828 - 924 pages
...history of their country or of the world. " We were now treading," says Dr. Johnson, speaking of lona, " that illustrious island which was once the luminary...all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our... | |
 | Thomas Shuttleworth Grimshawe - 1828 - 698 pages
...influence of recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...whence savage clans, and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | 1828 - 546 pages
...influence of recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would... | |
 | 1828 - 586 pages
...luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract...from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be fuolish if it wore possible Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;... | |
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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... 
