 He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found ; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian...  Notes on the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems - Page 43by Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 76 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...any can be found ; and the names and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate author imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." He adds, "I asked a very learned minister in Sky, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...found; and the names and some of " the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor ima" gine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly '< heard the whole." Nay, he afterwards goes so far as to state, " that though some " men of integrity profess to have heard... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1807 - 530 pages
...; £md the names and some of " the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor ima" gine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly " heard the whole." Nay, he afterwards goes so far as to state, " that though some " men of integrity profess to have heard... | |
 | 1807 - 536 pages
...; and the names and some of " the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor ima«' gine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly '' heard the whole." Nay, he afterwards goes so far as to state, " that though some " men of integrity profess to have heard... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found ; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate...Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I asked a very learned minister in Skia, who had used all the arts to make me believe the ge. anineuessof... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...popular stories, and may have translated some waudering ballads, if any can be found; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate...Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I asked a very learned minister in Sky, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...popular stories, and may have translated some waudering ballads, if any can be found; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate...Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I asked a very learned minister in Sky, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate...Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I asked a very learned minister in Sky, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness of... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 542 pages
...popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found; and the names and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate...Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." Again, " I have yet supposed no imposture but in the publisher, yet 1 am far from certainty, that some... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 512 pages
...popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found ; and the names and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate...Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." Again, " I have yet supposed no imposture but in the publisher, yet 1 am far from certainty, that some... | |
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