 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 pages
...fiction ; they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotsman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than enquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1822 - 414 pages
...ingenuity. The TAUT 3.] P Scots have something to plead for their easy reception of an improhable fietion: they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed...will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought tbe English to be much influenced by Scotch authority ; for of the past and present state of the whole... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 pages
...fiction : they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...authority ; for of the past and present state of the whole Earse nation, the Lowlanders are at least as ignorant as ourselves. To be ignorant is painful ; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 444 pages
...moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than enquiry and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought the li 3 English to be much influenced by Scotch authority; for of the past and present state of the whole... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 pages
...will) his own ingenuity. The Scots have something to plead for their easy reception of an improbable fiction: they are seduced by their fondness for their...authority ; for of the past and present state of the whole brse nation', the Lowlanders are at least as ignorant as ourselves. To be ignorant is painrul ; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 pages
...fiction : they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought the E?iglish to be much influenced by Scotch authority : for of the past and present state of the whole... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 602 pages
...fiction : they arc seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood natters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Neither ought the English to be much influenced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 pages
...fiction: they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood natters his vanity, will not be very diligent to doUx-t it. Neither ought the English to be much influenced... | |
 | Joseph Ritson - 1829 - 80 pages
...sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it," he says, " better than inquiry : and, if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." He is speaking of another forgery, — the Poems of Ossian. However this may be, the fact is incontestable... | |
 | 1842 - 648 pages
...testimony towards the support of Dr. Johnson's weighty words when he said, " A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." Besides the causes we have assigned for the indifference that prevails regarding the Ossianic controversy,... | |
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A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. 
