 | John Stuart Blackie - 1876 - 352 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...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." 1 It is written that " the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God ;" and certainly this... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1876 - 356 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...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." 1 It is written that " the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God ;" and certainly this... | |
 | 1880 - 500 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...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." Macpherson's own narrative of the way in which these poems were procured and given to the world is... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1880 - 768 pages
...fiction. They aro seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." Macpherson's own narrative of the way in which these poems were procured and given to the world is... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 pages
...if he be caught young. — Life. April 19, Collectanea, 1772. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy ""'m moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth...his vanity will not be very diligent to detect it. — Journey to the Western Islands, p. 104. There is generally a scoundrelism about a Scoundreltsm... | |
 | 1912 - 488 pages
...Royal Society. Dr. Johnson, indeed, is of opinion," he continues, " that ' a Scotchman must be a very 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...willingly look upon them from Slane's Castle.' ' A Scotchman,' he says in the same book, ' must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...vanity, will not be very diligent to •detect it.' He defends himself for not having investigated a Highland cave because ' we had with us neither spades... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1885 - 582 pages
...willingly look upon them from Slane's Castle.' ' A Scotchman,' he says in the same book, ' must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.' He defends himself for not having investigated a Highland cave because ' we had with us neither spades... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pages
...willingly look upon them from Slane's Castle. " A Scotchman," he says in the same book, " must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." He defends himself for not having investigated a Highland cave because " we had with us neither spades... | |
 | 1885 - 858 pages
...willingly look upon them from Slane's Castle." "A Scotchman," he says in the same book, " must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." He defends himself for not having investigated a ззб Highland cave because " we had with us neither... | |
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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. 
