Works of Ossian: Vol. I.Fleischer, 1783 |
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... adventurers paffing over from thofe parts of Britain , that ( a ) 3 ( * ) Caf . 1. 5. Agric . l . I. c . 2 . ( + ) Cæfar , Pomp . Mela , Tacitus . are are within fight of Ireland , were the founders of ANTIQUITY , c . of OSSIAN's Poems . V.
... adventurers paffing over from thofe parts of Britain , that ( a ) 3 ( * ) Caf . 1. 5. Agric . l . I. c . 2 . ( + ) Cæfar , Pomp . Mela , Tacitus . are are within fight of Ireland , were the founders of ANTIQUITY , c . of OSSIAN's Poems . V.
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... Ireland were originally Britons ; and his teftimony is unquestionable , when we confider , that , for many ages , the language and cuttoms of both nations were the fame , Tacitus was of opinion , that the ancient Caledonians were of ...
... Ireland were originally Britons ; and his teftimony is unquestionable , when we confider , that , for many ages , the language and cuttoms of both nations were the fame , Tacitus was of opinion , that the ancient Caledonians were of ...
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... Ireland . To give an appearance of novelty to his book , he feems to have coined many words , to be met with in no dialect whatsoever of any language either ancient of modern . Upon the whole , there perhaps never appeared a work fo ...
... Ireland . To give an appearance of novelty to his book , he feems to have coined many words , to be met with in no dialect whatsoever of any language either ancient of modern . Upon the whole , there perhaps never appeared a work fo ...
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... Ireland . The language of the High- landers and Irifh , the characters they use , and their mode of contraction in writing , are , in a great measure , the fame , and known to both by no other name than Gaelic . In our Inquir er's two ...
... Ireland . The language of the High- landers and Irifh , the characters they use , and their mode of contraction in writing , are , in a great measure , the fame , and known to both by no other name than Gaelic . In our Inquir er's two ...
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... Ireland , who is no native of Scotland , and who , I believe , never was there , lamenting that Mr. Shaw could not make ufe of the valuable materials , put into his hands , in Dublin , to enable him to write his Gaelic Dictionary ...
... Ireland , who is no native of Scotland , and who , I believe , never was there , lamenting that Mr. Shaw could not make ufe of the valuable materials , put into his hands , in Dublin , to enable him to write his Gaelic Dictionary ...
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