The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 3J.Fr. Valade and sold by Theophilus Barrois, 1783 |
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... Irish writers , and , by afterwards examining both by the teft of the Roman authors , it is eafy to discover which is the most probable . Probability is all that can be eftablished on the authority of tradition , ever dubious and ...
... Irish writers , and , by afterwards examining both by the teft of the Roman authors , it is eafy to discover which is the most probable . Probability is all that can be eftablished on the authority of tradition , ever dubious and ...
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... Irish bards and the more recent and regular legends of both Irish and Scottish hiftorians . I mean not to give offence to the abettors of the high antiquities of the two nations , though I have all along expreffed my doubts , concerning ...
... Irish bards and the more recent and regular legends of both Irish and Scottish hiftorians . I mean not to give offence to the abettors of the high antiquities of the two nations , though I have all along expreffed my doubts , concerning ...
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... Irish nation . Though the whole tenor of the poems fufficiently contradict fo abfurd an opinion it may not be improper , for the fatisfaction of fome , to examine the narrow foundation , on which this extraordinary claim is built . Of ...
... Irish nation . Though the whole tenor of the poems fufficiently contradict fo abfurd an opinion it may not be improper , for the fatisfaction of fome , to examine the narrow foundation , on which this extraordinary claim is built . Of ...
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... Irish nation . A Scotchman , tolerably conver- fant in his own language , understands an Irish compofition , from that derivative ana- logy which it has to the Galic of North- Britain . An Irishman , on the other hand , without the aid ...
... Irish nation . A Scotchman , tolerably conver- fant in his own language , understands an Irish compofition , from that derivative ana- logy which it has to the Galic of North- Britain . An Irishman , on the other hand , without the aid ...
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Caledonian Irish , when , on the contrary , they call the dialect of North - Britain a Caëlic or the Caledonian tongue , emphatically . A circumstance of this nature tends more to decide which is the most antient nation , than the ...
Caledonian Irish , when , on the contrary , they call the dialect of North - Britain a Caëlic or the Caledonian tongue , emphatically . A circumstance of this nature tends more to decide which is the most antient nation , than the ...
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againſt amidſt antient arife army arofe art thou Atha bards battle beam behold bending blaft Caël Cairbar Caledonians Carril Cathmor chief circumftance Clatho Clono cloud compofitions Conar Cormac courfe courſe Crothar Cuchullin dark darkneſs daugh death defart defcended epifode Erin eyes faid fame father feaft fecret feem fent Ferad-artho fide field filent Fillan Fingal Fion Firbolg firft firſt Foldath fome fong foul fpear fpirit fteel fteps ftill ftood ftrangers ftreams ftrength ftrife fword Gaul ghofts gleaming grey harp hear heard heath hero hill himſelf hoft Inis-huna Irish king of Ireland Larthon lift Lubar Lumon Malthos mift miſt moffy Moi-lena Moma Mora Morni Morven moſt night Ofcar Offian paffage perfon Picts pleaſant poem poet poffeffed raiſed reft renowned rife rock roes rofe rolled Scots shield ſteps Strutha Sul-malla Temora thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tranflation Trenmor Ullin vale voice warriors waves winds