 | Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1895 - 410 pages
...the trouble of waiting on me, as a ceremony of that kind is altogether superfluous and unnecessary. I shall adhere to the promise I made several years ago to a deputation of the same kind, thai is, to employ my first leisure time, and a considerable portion of time it must be to do it accurately,... | |
 | John Semple Smart - Bards and bardism in literature - 1905 - 256 pages
...the trouble of waiting upon me, as a ceremony of that kind is altogether superfluous and unnecessary. I shall adhere to the promise I made several years...the Poems of Ossian, as they have come to my hands. Funds having been established for the expense, there can be no excuse but want of leisure for not commencing... | |
 | Maggs Bros - Antiquarian booksellers - 1913 - 936 pages
...Macpherson in his letter writes : — " / -./.'I.';'/ adhere to the promise I made several years ago <o employ my first leisure time, and a considerable portion...the Poems of Ossian, as they have come to my hands. Funds having been established for the expence, there can be no excuse but want of leisure for not commencing... | |
 | Wolf Gerhard Schmidt - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 2003 - 612 pages
...Zeit und Muße habe, werde er die Originale herausgeben, denn deren Publikation erfordere viel Arbeit: "it must be to do it accurately, in arranging and...originals of the Poems of Ossian, as they have come to my hands".137 Die gälischen Manuskripte, die Macpherson besitzt und die 1768 auch Peter Helfrich Sturz... | |
 | Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1895 - 402 pages
...the trouble of waiting on me, as a ceremony of that kind is altogether superfluous and unnecessary. I shall adhere to the promise I made several years...the poems of Ossian as they have come to my hands. Funds having been established for the expense, there can be no excuse but want of leisure for not commencing... | |
 | Catalogs, Booksellers' - 1911 - 1004 pages
...Memoirs. Macpherson in his letter writes : — " / shall adhere to the promise I made several years ago to employ my first leisure time, and a considerable...the Poems of Ossian, as they have come to my hands. Funds having been established for the cxpence, there can be no excuse but want of leisure /or not commencing... | |
 | Canadian Institute - Science - 1893 - 762 pages
...the trouble of waiting on me, as a ceremony of that kind is altogether superfluous and unnecessary. I shall adhere to the promise I made several years...leisure time, and a considerable portion of time it must lie to do it accurately, in arranging and printing the originals of the poems of Ossian as they have... | |
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I received the favour of your letter, dated yesterday ; and I am sorry the gentlemen should think of giving themselves the trouble of waiting upon me, as a ceremony of that kind is altogether superfluous and unnecessary. I shall adhere to the promise... 
