 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...  Life and works of William Cowper - Page 107by William Cowper - 1836Full view - About this book
 | 1826 - 722 pages
...the man of wit, and the pity of the man of pleasure. " To abitrut iho mind from all local trootion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured ; and...Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us ia... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...Whatever 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 pages
...that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in... | |
 | Donald Campbell - 1801 - 374 pages
...Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and blessings of religion. To abstract the mind 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—whatever... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...be pleasure without dan- •' ger, aud security without restraint.(T TREASURES OF LOCAL EMOTJOW. ' To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...Whatever 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... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pages
...regions, where savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessingsof religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us to the... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 340 pages
...regions, where savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessingsof religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion...Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, •whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us to... | |
 | 1805 - 570 pages
...needless to transcribe it. Mr. M. every where feels the full force of Johnson's observation, that ' to abstract the mind from all local emotion would...endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible ;' and never ' with frigid philosophy passes indifferent and unmoved over any ground, which has been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pages
...that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge,...Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - 1806 - 532 pages
..." 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... | |
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