 | James Hay - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1884 - 400 pages
...a besieged town ; every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal." " A Scotchman," he said, " must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth." He greatly admired George Buchanan, the historian. A Scotch gentleman asked him one evening in company... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...Blair had adduced was a national conspiracy in falsehood, and consoled himself with the reflection that "a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth V These and similar observations Johnson proceeded to set down in a volume recording his travels in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1906 - 270 pages
...which no personal injury is the consequence, and which flatters the author with his own ingenuity. The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception...improbable fiction : they are seduced by their fondness far their supposed ancestors. A Scotsman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland... | |
 | William Geddie - English poetry - 1912 - 490 pages
...investigation for their new Royal Society. Dr. Johnson, indeed, is of opinion," he continues, " that ' a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does...Scotland better than truth; he will always love it,' he says, ' better than inquiry; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury, Wilbur Lucius Cross - Poets, English - 1915 - 690 pages
...of its subject. It seems rather to have impressed men with the justice of Dr. Johnson's dictum that a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth, and that he will always love it better than inquiry. The influence of a critical article depends largely... | |
 | Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt - Ballads, English - 1916 - 378 pages
...Caledonian bigotry, ' ' has gained acceptance for the fictions, especially among the Scots ; for " a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth."* Boswell's more racy account of the details of this hunting of ' ' the fattiste hartes in all Cheviat... | |
 | University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - Language and languages - 1916 - 638 pages
...than those of any other country. ' ' That they are, Ritson does not doubt. He agrees with Johnson that "a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland more than truth." Of the love of falsehood rather than of truth, he considers the many literary impostures... | |
 | William Henry Schofield - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 408 pages
...spirit and mind," f such as St. Patrick found the tales of Caeilte. CHAPTER X THE WALLACE AS HISTORY A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. Dr. JOHNSON TI^HE nature of the Wallace and the cause of its A permanent influence become clearer when... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...which no personal injury is the consequence, and which flatters the author with his own ingenuity. The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception...supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy SECOND SIGHT 177 moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth : he will always love it better... | |
 | Adam Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 500 pages
...restrained myself for fear of disturbing your sorrow. I am ever yours Adam Smith James Macpherson: 'A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than the truth' (.-1 Journey to the Western islands, 1775). > In London on 29 May, Gibbon described the... | |
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The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception of an improbable fiction : they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy SECOND SIGHT 177 moralist, who does not love Scotland better than... 
