 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...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 shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826
...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... | |
 | John Genest - 1832
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834
...its present form ?" For these and such like reasons, Johneon calls the whole an imposture. He adds, " tainments, but insensibility of our wants. Nothing can be great which is not right Noth To revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
 | 1835
...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 it be shown by any other.' Whether the celebrated lexicographer, had he lived to witness the publication of the Gaelic manuscripts... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836
..."I believe they (the poems of Ossian) never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor or author never could show the original ; nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837
...its 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 shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837
..."I believe they (the poems of Ossian) never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor or author never could show the original ; nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
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The editor, or author, never could show the original ; nor can it be shown by any other; to revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence, with which the world is not yet acquainted ; and stubborn audacity is the last... 
