 | John Smith - Druids and druidism - 1780 - 370 pages
...tranflator, I have fet down as many of their names below aa will, I hope, be reckoned fufficient *. AFTER the materials were collected, the next labour was to compare the different editions ; to ftrike off feveral parts that were manifeftly fpurious ; to bring together fome epifodes that appeared... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...his colleague, that such had been their conduct. " After the materials were collected," says he, " the next labour was to compare the different editions...strike off several parts that were manifestly spurious ; to bring together some episodes that appeared to have a relation to one another, though repeated... | |
 | Edward Davies - Celtic poetry - 1825 - 356 pages
...pieces were found, of no inconsiderable " merit, though few of them either entire or vn" corrupted. What seemed, in this case, the most " natural expedient,...was, to collect from different " quarters, as many editions (oral recitations) as " possible, in order to supply the defects, and ree" tify the mistakes... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...pursued, and which every one, in similar circumstances, as we know from experience, must pursue. " After the materials were collected, the next labour was to compare the different editions ; to shake off several parts that were manifestly spurious ; to bring together some episodes that appeared... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 552 pages
...as perfect. Mr. Smith, speaking of the originals of Ossian as they came to his hands, observes : " After the materials were collected, the next labour was to compare the different editions, to strike tiff several parts that were manifestly spurious, bring together some episodes that appeared to have... | |
 | John Francis Campbell - Celts - 1862 - 516 pages
...himself (Smith's Gaelic Antiquities, p. 128. 1780. Edinburgh)— " When the materials were collected, his next labour was to compare the different editions...strike off several parts that were manifestly spurious; to bring together some episodes, "etc., and he tells us, that he pieced in lines and half lines, and... | |
 | Scotland - 1877 - 392 pages
...compiled his Ossian in the manner above described. "After the materials were collected," says he, " the next labour was to compare the different editions...strike off several parts that were manifestly spurious ; Ï to bring together some episodes that appeared to have a relation to one another, though repeated... | |
 | Clans - 1908 - 278 pages
...recitations as possible, in to supply the defects and rectify the ses of the one by the help of another. the materials were collected, the next labour was to compare the different versions, to strike off several parts that were manifestly spurious, and bring together some episodes... | |
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After the materials were collected," says he, " the next labour was to compare the different editions, to strike off several parts that were manifestly spurious,! to bring together some episodes that appeared to have a relation to one another, though... 