 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 Finsbury magazine, ed. by A. McAuslane - Seite 51herausgegeben von - 1864Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 Seiten
...MEMBER.* RULE Til.— The penultimate member of a sentence requires the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. We were now treading that illustrious island, which...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge', and the blessings of religion. 2. Mahomet was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 Seiten
...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...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 528 Seiten
...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...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the... | |
 | 1834 - 536 Seiten
...records the emotions excited in his breast, by the prospect of lona, affords unquestionable proof. " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits »f knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the... | |
 | Mary Martha Rodwell - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...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 the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." It was in the sixth... | |
 | Mark Aloysius Tierney - 1834 - 382 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 Seiten
...Johnson's celebrated allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 Seiten
...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...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 374 Seiten
...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...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 Seiten
...Johnson's celebrated allusion to this subject, that we close our remarks by inserting the passage. — " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the... | |
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