...upon places connected with human life. That is a noble passage about lona which begins : ' We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion ; ' and ends : ' That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain...

...beside its stone effigies of forgotten kings and sculptured crosses of almost mythical saints, from whence " savage clans and roving barbarians derived...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." For centuries before and after the landing of Columba and his fellowmissionaries, up till about the...

...isles; and it was this brilliant era of its annals which rose in Johnson's mind when he described Has "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....

...in the description of his tour to the Hebrides, is only too weak. "We were now treading," he says, "that illustrious island which was once the luminary...whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefit of knowledge and the blessing of religion." " That man is little to be envied whose patriotism...

...the promptings of his more serious and sensible nature, and thus wrote with regard tolona : "We were now treading that illustrious island which was once...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. Far from me and from my friends be such a frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved...

...Synod of Argyll. Dr. Johnson', who visited lona during his Scottish tour, writes of it : " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved...

...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....

...heart of the Highlands and Isles, in times of old, the production of Gaelic literature was possible : " We are now treading that illustrious island which...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. Far from me and from ^my friends be such a frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved...

...anti-Popish Synod of Argyll. Dr. Johnson, who visited lona during his Scottish tour, writes of it : " We were now treading that illustrious island which was once...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved...

...Columba, who founded the University of lona, which, according to the celebrated Dr. Samuel Johnson, " was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence...benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion." The School of Cork contributed its quota to the list of missionaries who went to far off lands to preach...