 | James Boswell - 1823 - 492 str.
...have been uncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. 6 " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which...Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language, and of his frequent use of metaphorical... | |
 | 1823 - 750 str.
...p. 5Q4, is a small but celebrated island, and was, as Dr. Johnson expresses it, " once the lumirutry of the Caledonian Regions, whence savage clans and...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of Religion." ]n this Island, and in this most celebrated seat of Religion, was the learned St. Cuthbert educated... | |
 | 1823 - 862 str.
...bat celebrated island, " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions (as Dr Johnson expresses it), whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The name lona is derived from a Hebrew word signifying a dove, in allusion to his patron Columba, who... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 438 str.
...expression, that is a great excellence in style, when it is used with propriety, for it gives you two w " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which...withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 str.
...mind, and the moment we landed, no less than three of us broke forth in the following words : — * We were now treading that illustrious island, which...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clansand roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 str.
...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...withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 str.
...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...withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 str.
...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...withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever inakea the past the distant or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1825 - 486 str.
...no trace remains. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion," says an eminent British tourist, " would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would...withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking... | |
 | sir Richard Phillips - 1825 - 408 str.
...celebrated island ; " once the luminary of the Caledonian regions," as Dr. Johnson expresses it : " whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." .- ~ It is three miles long, and from half a mile to a mile broad. On the east side it is flat ; in... | |
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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... 
