Thoughts on the Origin and Descent of the Gael: With an Account of the Picts, Caledonians, and Scots; and Observations Relative to the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian |
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... kings to the Manes of their ancestors . The gen- tle Hindoos , learned and improved in arts and sciences for ages far removed beyond our know- ledge , inflict from pious motives the most severe self - torments and castigations . Among ...
... kings to the Manes of their ancestors . The gen- tle Hindoos , learned and improved in arts and sciences for ages far removed beyond our know- ledge , inflict from pious motives the most severe self - torments and castigations . Among ...
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... thousand and eighty years before the reign of Minos , king of Crete . Cadmus , it is said , built Thebes , and introduced letters into * BLAIR'S Chronol . Tables . Greece one thousand four hundred and ninety- three years before 121.
... thousand and eighty years before the reign of Minos , king of Crete . Cadmus , it is said , built Thebes , and introduced letters into * BLAIR'S Chronol . Tables . Greece one thousand four hundred and ninety- three years before 121.
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... kings never submitted to the pay- ment of this ignominious tribute or tax , not even for the province of Cumberland , which they held feudally of the crown of England . * The word gelt in the acceptation of the Gael of Scot- land , came ...
... kings never submitted to the pay- ment of this ignominious tribute or tax , not even for the province of Cumberland , which they held feudally of the crown of England . * The word gelt in the acceptation of the Gael of Scot- land , came ...
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... king , were known to the Romans , and afterwards to the * Lar signifies the ground upon which a house is built , and is also applied to the floor of a house : hence the Lares or fa- miliar deities of the Romans . Saxons , by the ...
... king , were known to the Romans , and afterwards to the * Lar signifies the ground upon which a house is built , and is also applied to the floor of a house : hence the Lares or fa- miliar deities of the Romans . Saxons , by the ...
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... king was lasting ; " his cheek was like the daisy ; " i . e . pure red and white . Majestic stature , great strength , lofty prowess , a graceful figure , and a loud sounding voice , were accomplishments of a warrior ; but , in common ...
... king was lasting ; " his cheek was like the daisy ; " i . e . pure red and white . Majestic stature , great strength , lofty prowess , a graceful figure , and a loud sounding voice , were accomplishments of a warrior ; but , in common ...
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ages Albinn ancient inhabitants appellation applied arts barbarous bishop of Caithness body Britain Britons Cæsar Caithness Caledonians Caledonii called Catt Cecrops chariots coast colonies common compound cultivation denominated denote derived descendants distinguished division of Albinn doubt Draonaich enemies English Erinn evidence expressed Fingal Friths Gael of Scotland Gaelic language Gaelic word Gauls Greece Greek language guage hair Herodotus Highlands of Scotland inhabitants of Albinn inhabitants of Greece Ireland Irish island Italy king known land Latin Latin languages learned literally low country Macpherson mankind manner mode monadh mountains multa nations nature northern numbers observed original pastoral Pelasgi Pelasgian period Picti Pictish Picts poems of Ossian portion possessed preserved pronounced pronunciation provinces provincial Britons quæ race remain river Saxons Scoti Scotland and Ireland Scots and Picts septem signifies soil Strabo strangers Strath sunt Suther term tion translation ulna vallies Varro Welsh whence καὶ
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Page 365 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 365 - Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall One day upon our heads; while we perhaps, Designing or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed...
Page 359 - Carncklhura,) about thirty years ago, from an old man in Glenlyon. I took it and several other fragments (now, I fear, irrecoverably lost,) from the man's mouth. He had learnt them in his youth, from people in the same glen, which •must have been long before Macpherson was born.
Page 317 - I live in a place," he writes, " where I have the pleasure of frequently hearing justice done to your dissertation, but never heard it mentioned in a company, where some one person or other did not express his doubts with regard to the authenticity of the poems which are its subject, and I often hear them totally rejected with disdain and indignation, as a palpable and most impudent forgery. This opinion has, indeed, become very prevalent among the men of letters in London ; and I can foresee, that...
Page 317 - ... often hear them totally rejected with disdain and indignation, as a palpable and most impudent forgery. This opinion has, indeed, become very prevalent among the men of letters in London; and I can foresee, that in a few years the poems, if they continue to stand on their present footing, will be thrown aside, and will fall into final oblivion. 'The absurd pride and caprice of Macpherson himself, who scorns...
Page 301 - had been bred in England, and married an English princess. Her retinue were all English. English, in consequence, would become the language of that court. The courtiers would carry it to their respective homes ; their domestics would be ambitious to speak the language of their masters ; and thus it would be gradually introduced into every fashionable circle...
Page 365 - Amid the tempest let me die, torn, in a cloud, by angry ghosts of men; amid the tempest let Calmar die, if ever chase was sport to him, so much as the battle of shields!"
Page 209 - Caledonians kept possession uf the rising ground, extending their ranks as wide as possible to present a formidable show of battle. Their first line was ranged on the plain, the rest in a gradual ascent on the acclivity of the hill. The intermediate space between both armies was filled with the charioteers and cavalry of the Britons, rushing to ami fro in wild career, and traversing the plain with noise and tumult.
Page 365 - Fergus! in the day of the storm? Fergus, first in our joy at the feast ! son of Rossa ! arm of death! comest thou like a roe from Malmor? Like a hart from thy echoing hills? Hail, thou son of Rossa! what shades the soul of war?