...the glamour of the past and the pathos of the present. It was in lona that he wrote : — " We are now treading that illustrious island which was once...of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roaming barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the...

...his tuneful strains ; Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore, That loved the light of song to pour ; 1 We were now treading that illustrious island, which...knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the uiiud from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if...

...their small boats even as far as Iceland. Dr. Johnson says in his " Tour to the Hebrides " : " We are now treading that illustrious island which was once...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessing of religion. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the...

...of thousands of youth who here shall hail the "gladsome light of jurisprudence-" Johnson has said : "To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored, and would be foolish if it were possible." From the quiet halls of learning reared on these...

...and it was this brilliant era of its annals which rose in Johnson's mind when he described it as ' that illustrious island which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion.' But neither piety nor learning availed to save it from the ravages of the fierce and heathen Norsemen....

...its existence which doubtless arose in Dr. Johnson's mind when he described "that illustrious island, once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." But alas ! neither holiness nor learning availed to save lona from the ravages of the fierce Norsemen....

...to be remembered as long as the spot and scenes that called them forth. " We were now," he says, " treading that illustrious Island which was once the...the Caledonian regions — whence savage clans and roaming barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. To abstract the...

...Dr Johnson, with his stubborn contempt of all that was Scotch, could write with enthusiasm as the " illustrious island which was once the luminary of...regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians received 1 In the preamble of Statutes, 24 Henry VIII. The words follow : " The determination of questions,...

...it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise." ' ' We are now treading that illustrious island which was once...barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessing of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavored,...

...he took possession of it he laid the foundation of that far-famed seminary, "which," says Johnson, "was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions,...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." Till the coming of Columba this island (previously called Hy), was uninhabited, and his first care...