The Poems of OssianW. Bulmer and Company, 1807 |
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Page iii
... appear in the dialect in which they were said to have been originally composed ; that the whole was a forgery , written in English , which never existed in any other form than the one in which it had been produced ; and which in fact ...
... appear in the dialect in which they were said to have been originally composed ; that the whole was a forgery , written in English , which never existed in any other form than the one in which it had been produced ; and which in fact ...
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... appear , that the Gaelic must neces- sarily have been anterior ; and that the English translation by Macpherson , however much it has been admired , yet in fact conveys but a very imper- fect idea indeed , of the singular merit , and ...
... appear , that the Gaelic must neces- sarily have been anterior ; and that the English translation by Macpherson , however much it has been admired , yet in fact conveys but a very imper- fect idea indeed , of the singular merit , and ...
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... appear to have been examined by im- partial persons competent to the task ; nor were copies of such manuscripts taken , nor literal trans- lations of them made , as ought to have been the case . No enquiry was set on foot for the disco ...
... appear to have been examined by im- partial persons competent to the task ; nor were copies of such manuscripts taken , nor literal trans- lations of them made , as ought to have been the case . No enquiry was set on foot for the disco ...
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... appears from the following circumstance . * Under all the disadvantages of a lapse of many years , a most respectable public institution , The Highland Society of Scotland , took up the inves- tigation into the authenticity of Ossian ...
... appears from the following circumstance . * Under all the disadvantages of a lapse of many years , a most respectable public institution , The Highland Society of Scotland , took up the inves- tigation into the authenticity of Ossian ...
Page xix
... appears from the following account of them , given by one of the most famous humanists in Scotland . + " Al- 66 though it is well known , " as this eloquent author observes , " that the Scots had always * Mr. Pinkerton , in his Enquiry ...
... appears from the following account of them , given by one of the most famous humanists in Scotland . + " Al- 66 though it is well known , " as this eloquent author observes , " that the Scots had always * Mr. Pinkerton , in his Enquiry ...
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