 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...  Handbook for travellers in Scotland - Página 216por John Murray (publishers.) - 1873 - 464 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 páginas
...Our boat could 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 luminary of the Caledoni.in fregions, whence savage clans and roving barba. rians derived the benefits of knowledge,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 páginas
...shall 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...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be T t impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 páginas
...Our boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 páginas
...Our boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 482 páginas
...or the future, predominate over the present, ad• • ranees us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my " friends be such frigid philosophy, as would conduct us, indifferent " and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 páginas
...boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. , We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | James MacDonald (A.M.), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1811 - 848 páginas
...Our boat could not be forced very near the dry ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 páginas
...Our boat could not be forced very near the diy ground, and our Highlanders carried us over the water. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1812 - 500 páginas
...usual strength of observation by Johnson, in his Tour to the Hebrides. " At last we came to Icolmkill. We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, where savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.... | |
 | 1813 - 536 páginas
...great many eminent men ; but such are the ravages of time and the revolutions of society, that this island, which was once " the -luminary of the Caledonian...benefits, of knowledge, and the blessings of religion," had, when Dr. 1 Ginguone Hist. Lilt, d'ltalie, rol. III. ch. 17.— Shepherd's Life of Pogfio.— Bibl.... | |
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