...uncandid in Blair, even supposing his criticism to have been just, to have preserved it. — BOSWELL. i "We were now treading that illustrious island which...To abstract the mind from all local emotion would he impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws...

...Douglas. — " I must confess that I do not. Will you have the kindness to repeat it ? " Saadi. — " ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever...

...and abused by quotation, still continues to be one of the most affecting in our literature : — " We were now treading that illustrious island which...blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever...

...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...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion," observes, " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured,...

...of the coldhearted politician, the mockery of the man of wit, and the pity of the man of pleasure. " To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...impossible, If it were endeavoured ; and would be foolisb, if it were possible* Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the...

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

...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...endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future,...

...influence of recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...whence savage clans, and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...

...influence of recollections like these, that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage. " We were now treading that illustrious island which...whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...

...one of the Hebrides ; " once the Luminary of the Caledonian regions," (as Dr. Johnson calls it,) " whence savage clans, and roving barbarians, derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion!" — In this seminary- which might justly have been denominated a MISSIONARY COLLEGE, the students spent...