 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1906 - 270 pages
...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 Skye, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness of... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...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...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 the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...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 the... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 292 pages
...similar to those more often raised about Macpherson, see Haywood, The Making of History, pp. 105 14. being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine,...Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.103 Macpherson discovered the nature of this passage within two days of Johnson's book being... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - History - 1997 - 450 pages
...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. . . . It is said, that some men of integrity profess to have heard parts of it, but they all heard... | |
 | English essays - 1775 - 652 pages
...doubttefs infcrtcd names that circulate in populir ftories, and may hare tranflated fume wandering ballade, if any can be found ; and the names, and fome of the...Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I aflced a very learned minifter in Sky, who had ufed all arts to make me believe the ecnuintncrs of... | |
 | 1796 - 504 pages
...written. He has doubtlels inferted names that circulate in popular itories, and may have tranflated iöme wandering ballads, if any can be found ; and the names, and fome of the iirwges, being recolieded, make an inaccurate editpr imagine, by the ' S s kelp of Caledonian bigotry,... | |
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... it if he had it; but whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any... 
