 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...northern lights; these are mere farthing candles."' /*. v.57*.3. Scotchmen : A SCOTCHMAN must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. Works, ix. n6. ' MR. OGILVIE was unlucky enough to choose for the topic of his conversation the praises... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...lights; these are mere farthing candles." ' n, v. 57 „. 3. Scotchmen : 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. Works, ix. n6. 'MR. OGILVIE was unlucky... | |
 | William Geddie - 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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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." Such is the opinion, and such... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy SECOND SIGHT 177 moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth...authority ; for of the past and present state of the whole Earse nation, the Lowlanders are at least as ignorant as ourselves." Such is the opinion, and such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 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... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pages
...approved of his procedure. There are a few flings of the expected kind : ' A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry.' But the aim is rather to describe the broad features of a partly undiscovered country — its system... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 pages
...in general were 'seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better...flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.'93 Andrew Henderson, outraged by this passage, defended the originality of Fingal against the Iliad... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - 1997 - 450 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...Neither ought the English to be much influenced by Scottish authority. (P. 1 19) Johnson was justified in doubting Macpherson 's "improbable fiction"... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pages
...integrity of Macpherson but on the character and integrity of all Scots: "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." " Aside from his indignation at this unwarranted... | |
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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. 
