Works of Ossian: Vol. I.Fleischer, 1783 |
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Page iv
... most abfurd fables concern- ing the high antiquities of their respective nations . Good hiftorians , however , rofe very early amongst them , and transmitted , with luftre , their great actions to pofterity . It is to them that they owe ...
... most abfurd fables concern- ing the high antiquities of their respective nations . Good hiftorians , however , rofe very early amongst them , and transmitted , with luftre , their great actions to pofterity . It is to them that they owe ...
Page v
... most renowned ; not perhaps on account of worth fuperior to the reft , but for their wars with a people , who had hiftorians to transmit the fame of their enemies , as well as their own , to pofterity . Britain was first peopled by them ...
... most renowned ; not perhaps on account of worth fuperior to the reft , but for their wars with a people , who had hiftorians to transmit the fame of their enemies , as well as their own , to pofterity . Britain was first peopled by them ...
Page xi
... most barbar- ous nations , the very populace themselves had fome faint notion , at least , of a divinity . It would be doing injuftice to Offian , who upon no occafion fhews a . narrow mind , to think , that he had not opened his 1 ...
... most barbar- ous nations , the very populace themselves had fome faint notion , at least , of a divinity . It would be doing injuftice to Offian , who upon no occafion fhews a . narrow mind , to think , that he had not opened his 1 ...
Page xii
... most probable time , in which the first dawning of Chriftianity in the north of Britain can be fixed . The humane and mild cha- racter of Conftantius Chlorus , who commanded then ins Britain , induced the perfecuted Chriftians , to take ...
... most probable time , in which the first dawning of Chriftianity in the north of Britain can be fixed . The humane and mild cha- racter of Conftantius Chlorus , who commanded then ins Britain , induced the perfecuted Chriftians , to take ...
Page xx
... most perfect harmony was obferved . Each verfe was fo connected with those which preceded or followed it , that , if one line had been remembered in a stanza , it was almoft impoffible to forget the rest . The cadences followed in fo ...
... most perfect harmony was obferved . Each verfe was fo connected with those which preceded or followed it , that , if one line had been remembered in a stanza , it was almoft impoffible to forget the rest . The cadences followed in fo ...
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