the greatest contempt and disdain for those who " thought him the fabricator of them. If there " was any person who asserted that Macpherson " had owned it to himself, even that would not " shake my faith, for I know him to be of a tem" per, when he... The Poems of Ossian - Page lxxxi1807Full view - About this book
| Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...unamiable.* What could be expected from such a character, but the conduct he identically pui-sued ? The evidence of that respectable clergyman, Dr. Carlyle,...and fretted, to carry " his indignation that far." t THE PRIVATE MEMORANDUMS written by * See David Hume's letter to Dr. Blair, Report of the Highland... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...p. 65. veracity ; and he observes in another letter, that Macpherson was a strange and heteroclite mortal, and that he never knew any man more perverse...and fretted, to carry " his indignation that far." t THE PRIVATE MEMORANDUMS written by * See David Hume's letter to Dr. Blair, Report of the Highland... | |
| James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1807 - 530 pages
...p. 60, veracity ; and he observes in another letter, that Macpherson was a strange and heteroclite mortal, and that he never knew any man more perverse..." the greatest contempt and disdain for those who 46 thought him the fabricator of them. If there 46 was any person who asserted that Macpherson 44 had... | |
| Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 pages
...and translator of the works of Ossian, or assumed any other merit than might be derived from thence; but I have heard him express the greatest contempt...for those who thought him the fabricator of them." That Macpherson either admitted or asserted that his Ossian was entirely composed by himself, and not... | |
| Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 pages
...and translator of the works of Ossian, or assumed any other merit than might be derived from thence; but I have heard him express the greatest contempt...for those who thought him the fabricator of them." That Macpherson either admitted or asserted that his Ossian was entirely composed by himself, and not... | |
| Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...and translator of the works of Ossian, or assumed any other merit than might be derived from thence. But I have heard him express the greatest contempt...himself, even that would not shake my faith; for I knew him to be of a temper, when he was teased and fretted, to carry his indignation that far."2 Captain... | |
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