 I see you entertain a great doubt with regard to the authenticity of the poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand verses, along with numberless...  NEW AND POPULAR HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. - Page 68by ROBERT FERGUSON, LL.D. - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any man of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...thousand verses, along with numberless " historical facts, could have been preserved by oral tradi" tion, during fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps,...necessitous, the most " turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition " is so contrary to common sense, any positive evidence of " it ought never to... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...credit. " It is in" deed strange," says Hume in a letter to Gibbon, " that " any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that " above twenty thousand...historical facts, could have been preserved by oral tradi" tion, during fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of '< all the civilized nations, the... | |
 | John Stark - Biography - 1805 - 488 pages
...in, Iced strange that any nun of aer.se could have imagined it possible, that above IYKI:I/ thou>aad verses, along with numberless historical facts, could...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | 1808 - 1142 pages
...certainly right in so do' ing. It is, indeed, strange, that ' any men of sense could have ima' gined it possible, that above ' twenty thousand verses, along ' with numberless historical facts, ' cotild have been preserved by oral ' tradition during tiny generations, 1 by the rudest, perhaps,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...sense could have imagiiifil it possible, that ai ove twenty thousand verses, along with nunberless historical facts, could have been preserved by oral...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest perhaps of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest perhaps of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | George Buchanan, James Aikman - Scotland - 1827 - 710 pages
...of fifteen hundred years by oral tradition. It is indeed strange, says Hume in a letter to Gibbon, that any man of sense should have imagined it possible...necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. To estimate the full force of this argument, adds Laing, " let us remember that three-fourths of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
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