| Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 oldal
...Serventur leges, malint a Cscsare tolli. ION A. [From A Journey to On Wattrn Isles of Scotland (1776)] We were now treading that illustrious Island, which...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving 6 barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind... | |
| James Boswell - 1907 - 634 oldal
...afterwards Mrs. Barbauld, in a volume of miscellaneous pieces by her and Dr. Aikin in 1773.—Croker.] J " We were now treading that illustrious island which...emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, *nd would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever... | |
| James Boswell - 1907 - 730 oldal
...having been uncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. 2 " WE were now treading that illustrious island, which...clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of his own style being exceedingly dry and hard, he disapproved of the richness of Johnson's language,... | |
| Thomas Smyth - 1909 - 834 oldal
...of the sixth century. We shall find that model on little lona, which Dr. Samuel Johnson described as "that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Wherein did the institute of lona, and others of its order, differ from the monasteries which became... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1979 - 1374 oldal
[ Sajnáljuk, az oldal tartalma korlátozott hozzáférésű. ] | |
| Charles Sears Baldwin - 1909 - 390 oldal
...upon Latin derivatives which are appropriate alike to deliberate movement and to deliberative mood. We were now treading that illustrious island which...from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,... | |
| Thomas Smyth - 1909 - 798 oldal
...of the sixth century. We shall find that model on little lona. which Dr. Samuel Johnson described as "that illustrious island, which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Wherein did the institute of lona, and others of its order, differ from the monasteries which became... | |
| James Boswell - 1852
...nncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it.— BOSWELL. < " We were now treading that illustrious island, -which was once the luminary of the ian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of dry and hard, he disapproved... | |
| 1909 - 432 oldal
...«ill endure as long as the English language is spoken— "Wo were now treading t lint illufftrious island which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clan* and roving barbarians derived the benefit« of knowledge and the blessing« of religion. . .... | |
| James Boswell - 1910 - 548 oldal
...have been uncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. b "WE were now treading that illustrious island, which...emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and wonld be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever... | |
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