 | James Browne - 1838 - 558 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Anderson - 1863 - 800 pagina’s
...existed in any other form than that which we have seen," meaning in Macpherson's translation, and " that the editor or author never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other." Sir James Macintosh, too, in his ' History of England,' expresses himself very strongly against their... | |
 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 pagina’s
...is already discovered. / believe they 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... | |
 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 pagina’s
...is already discovered. / believe they 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... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1876 - 356 pagina’s
...is already discovered. I believe they 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-... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1876 - 356 pagina’s
...is already discovered. I believe they 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... | |
 | William Anderson - 1867 - 772 pagina’s
...existed in any other form than that which we have seen," meaning in Macphersou's translation, and " that the editor or author never could show the original, nor can it he shown hy any other." Sir James Macintosh, too, in his ' History of England,' expresses himself very... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
