 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...  The Lord of the Isles - Side 164af Walter Scott - 1857 - 367 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 sider
...that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 sider
...that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 sider
...that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1806 - 532 sider
..." once the luminary of the Caledonian regions," as Dr. Johnson expresses it, " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The disciples of St. Columbus, who were called Culdees, were a regular clergy, differing from the church... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 496 sider
...that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 sider
...that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from I all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 sider
...that illustrious island, which was once the luminary. of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 sider
...which was once the luminary of the Caledoni.in fregions, whence savage clans and roving barba. rians derived the benefits of knowledge, -and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion vfonld be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 sider
...that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 sider
...that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be T t impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.... | |
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