| Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...boys, and it never was said that any of " them could recite six lines." lie farther observes, " that the Scots have something to plead " for their easy reception of an improbable fiction ; they are se" duced by the fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotch" man must be a very sturdy moralist... | |
| James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1807 - 530 pages
...boys, and it never was said that any of " them could recite six lines/' lie farther observes, " that the Scots have something to plead " for their easy reception of an improbable fiction ; they are se" duced by the fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotch" man must be a very sturdy moralist... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...boys, and it never was said that any of " them could recite six lines." lie farther observes, " that the Scots have something to plead " for their easy reception of an improbable fiction ; they are se" duccd by the fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotch" man must be a very sturdy moralist... | |
| 1807 - 536 pages
...boys, and it never was said that any of " them could recite six lines." He farther observes, " that the Scots have something to plead " for their easy reception of an improbable fiction; they are se" duced by the fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotch" man must be a very sturdy moralist... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 pages
...its title to both these characters. Upon the former of these topics Dr. Johnson harshly lObserved, " a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth." It was the bitter remark of a bigotted and ungrateful visitor, whose toryism. (if not his better feelings)... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 512 pages
...which no personal injury is the consequence, and which flatters the author with his own ingenuity. The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception...for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry,... | |
| Biography - 1815 - 542 pages
...which no personal injury is the consequence, and which flatters the author with his own ingenuity. The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception...for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth; he will always love it better than inquiry,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 540 pages
...which no personal injury is the consequence, and which flatters the author with his own ingenuity. The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception of an improhable fiction : they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 424 pages
...personal injury k TOL. vni. 2 A the consequence, and which flatters the author with his own ingenuity. The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception...by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotsman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...ingenuity. The TAUT 3.] P Scots have something to plead for their easy reception of an improhable fietion: they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth : he will always love it better than... | |
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