 | J. C. D. Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 292 pages
...neighbours.'124 But Hawkins was a Whig. As another Whig observed, reacting against Johnson's charge that 'A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth': 'Strange that a man pensioned by the Government should write so unlike a gentleman, revive the national... | |
 | Rhetoric Society of America. Conference - Language and culture - 1995 - 212 pages
...refused to recant, Johnson, an enthusiastic Celtophobe, attributed the phenomenon to Scottish chauvinism: "A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth" (243). Johnson also dismissed all manuscript evidence, asserting that Gaelic had never been a written... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - Antiques & Collectibles - 1996 - 352 pages
...other. . . . [The poems are] too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception...moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth. ... To be ignorant is painful; but it is dangerous to quiet our uneasiness by the delusive opiate of... | |
 | Jennifer Speake - Travel - 2003 - 540 pages
..."insolent" refusal to produce evidence of substantial originals. He touched a raw nerve in declaring, "The Scots have something to plead for their easy...fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman "Scottifying the Palate": Boswell force-feeds the reluctant Johnson, who had a low opinion of many... | |
 | James Buchan - History - 2009 - 468 pages
...imposture.14' Having denied Scotland any ancient written culture, Johnson then called all the Scots liars: 'A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth.'144 The tenor of MacPherson's reply can be guessed from Johnson's counterreply of 20 January,... | |
 | Peter Knight, Jonathan Long - Arts - 2004 - 233 pages
...MS 21419E. 317 NLW MS 131068, 133. 318 Cf. Johnson's comment (which follows a discussion of Ossian): "A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth." A Journey to the Western Isles 1775 (Ostig in Skye) in Samuel Johnson: The Major Works, ed. D. Greene... | |
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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... 
