...present form ?" For these, and such like reasons, Johnson calls the whole an imposture. He adds, " The editor, or author, never could show the original, nor can it be showniby any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence...

...newspapers : " Dr. Johnson having asserted in his late publication, that the translator of Ossian's poems never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other ; I hereby declare, that the originals of Fingal and other poems of Ossian lay in my shop for many...

...newspapers : " Dr. Johnson having asserted in his late publication, thai the translator of Ossian's poems never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other ; I hereby declare, that the originals of Fingal and other poems of Ossian lay in my shop for many...

...present form ?" — For these and such like reasons, Johnson calls the whole an imposture — he adds, " the " editor, or author, never could show the original, " nor can it be sho\vn by any other — to revenge rea" sonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a " degree of...

...unfounded assertion of the colossus of English literature, Dr. Samuel Johnson, that ' the poems of Ossian never existed in any other form than that which we have seen,' in Macpherson's translation, and ' that the editor or author never could show the original, nor can...

...unfounded assertion of the colossus of English literature, Dr. Samuel Johnson, that " the poems of Ossian never existed in any other form than that which we have seen," in Macpherson's translation and " that the editor or author never could show the original, nor can...

...against them, that in his ' Journey to the Western Islands,' he declared that " the poems of Ossian never existed in any other form than that which we have seen," meaning in Macpherson's translation, and " that the editor or author never could show the original,...

...published his Tour, in which he spoke of Macpherson and his works in the most offensive manner. He says :* "I suppose my opinion of the poems of Ossian is already discovered. / believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author,...

...published his Tour, in which he spoke of Macpherson and his works in the most offensive manner. He says :* "I suppose my opinion of the poems of Ossian is already discovered. / believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author,...

...the results of his investigations in very decided terms : " I believe they [the роетя of Ossian] never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor or author never could shew the original ; nor can it be shewn by any other. To avenge reasonable incredulity by refusing...