 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 trang
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing: — ' We were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary...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 - 1800 - 302 trang
...buildings of Jcolmkill. Whether it is now inhabited we could not stay to inquire. We were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary...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... | |
 | Donald Campbell - 1801 - 374 trang
...emotions on visiting the famous island of lona, or Colombkill, he says—" We •were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion, would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 trang
...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...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 - 1807 - 496 trang
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 trang
...connected with lona. And, Sir, as to metaphorical expression, that is a great ex<• " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from I all local emotion... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 trang
...to his first landing at Icolmbkill, the antient seat of religion and learning. "We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary....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 - 1810 - 438 trang
...conveying my own sensations much more forcibly than I am capable of doing : " WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary...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, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 trang
...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...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 - 1810 - 428 trang
...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...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... 
