The manuscript ap peared to him, in a very different light, from that in which it was seen by those, who had from their infancy been accustomed to hear the contents of it recited or sung, by illiterate men, for the entertainment of the lower classes of... The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic - Page xliiby James Macpherson - 1807Full view - About this book
| Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...made upon him by the translation, enhanced his veneration- for the original. The manuscript appeared to him, in a very different light, from that in which...who had from their infancy been accustomed to hear ihe contents of it recited or sung, by illiterate men, for the entertainment of the lower classes of... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...John Farquharson's Gaelic collection of poems; and I was to have introduced them to Sir John MacGregor Murray, or to Ronald Macdonald, Esq. of Staffa, to...years ago— for I took notes of it then, and have freL quently repeated it since, upon his authority. I mentioned it particularly to the Rev. John Farquharson... | |
| 1807 - 536 pages
...made upon him by the translation, enhanced his veneration for the original. The manuscript appeared to him, in a very different light, from that in which...years ago — for I took notes of it then, and have frequently repeated it since, upon his authority. I mentioned it particularly to the Rev. John Farquharson... | |
| James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 558 pages
...Mr. Macgillivray by the translation enhanced his veneration for the original. The manuscript appeared to him, in a very different light, from that in which...the entertainment of the lower classes of Society — that the account then given by Mr. Macgillivray, was the same which he gave him thirty years ago... | |
| rev. James Gardner - 1849 - 390 pages
...a Physician there." Often, it may be, has he read his Bible; but that blessed book will now appear to him in a very different light from that in which it ever did before. Here he finds all that he so much needed—a pardon free, full, and irrevocable, and... | |
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