...Waves." This small but celebrated island, " was once," to use the memorable words of Dr. Johnson, " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians de* Mr. Daniell's splendid work, " A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain," contains several excellent...

...ruins which he discovered. After a landing had been with difficulty effected, the doctor proceeds : " We were now treading that illustrious island, which...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...

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

...prefer." But busy memory called up the celebrated passage in Dr. Johnson's " Tour to the Hebrides": " We were now treading that illustrious island which...once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence aavngc clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion....

..."That man is little to be envied .... whose piety does not grow warmer among the ruins of lona .... that illustrious island which was once the luminary...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." We have said little regarding the encouragement which lona gave to science, or the stimulus to study...

...influence of recollections like these that Dr. Johnson composed the following celebrated passage ; — ' We were now treading that illustrious island which...regions ; whence savage clans, and roving barbarians * We refer the reader to Pennant's Towr through Scotland, and Johnson's Tour to the Hebrides, for further...

...was used sometimes as a pen for cattle—sic transit gloria mundi. ' We were now,' says Dr. Johnson,' treading that illustrious island which was once the...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotions,...

...through every summer, a company like this descends on this barren strand, to behold what Johnson calls, " that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessings of religion." A more interesting or laudable excursion, the...

...career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains ; Quench 'd is his lamp of varied lore, 1 [" We were DOT treading that illustrious island, which was 'Once...luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage oana and roving harharians derived the henefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To ahstract...

...village of Icolmkill. Dr. Johnson calls it " the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence," he adds, " savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion." The bishop's seat was at Rushin, or Castletown, in the isle of Man, and in Latin is entitled Sodorensis....