...quotation, still continues to be one of the most affecting in our literature : — " 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 would...

...supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "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...

...confess that I do not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' 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...

...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...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," observes, " To abstract the mind from all local...

...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 luminary...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving harbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from...

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...recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be...

...recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once the luminary...benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be...

...the following celebrated passage. " ' We were now treading that illustrious island which wits > nee the luminary of the Caledonian regions ; whence savage...benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be...

...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...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...