| 1765 - 520 pages
...letter to the pope, had run up the antiquity of his nation to a, very remote aera. Fordun, pofTerTed of all the national prejudice of the age, was unwilling that his country mould yield, in point of antiquity, to a people, then its rivals and enemies. Deflitute of annals in... | |
| Poetry - 1773 - 466 pages
...letter to the pope, had run up the antiquity of his nation to a very remote sera. Fordun, pofleffed of all the national prejudice of the age, was unwilling...to the vulgar errors of the times, was reckoned the firft habitation of the Scots. He found, there, that the Irifh bards had carried their pretenfions... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Ireland - 1777 - 518 pages
...collected the fragments of Scotch hiftory, which cfcaped the brutal policy of tdward I.that he, poflefled of all the national prejudice of the age, was unwilling that his country mould yield in point of antiquity to England ; and that, de!titu'e of annals in Scotland, he had recourfe... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Dublin (Ireland) - 1778 - 526 pages
...collected the fragments of Scotch hiftory, which efcaped the brutal policy of Edward I. that he, pofTeffed of all the national prejudice of the age, was unwilling...his country fhould yield in point of antiquity to England } and that, deftitute of annals in Scotland, he had recourfe to Ireland, •which, according... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1779 - 288 pages
...Fordun , pofTefled of all the national prejudice of the age , was unwilling that his country should yield , in point of antiquity , to a people, then...recourfe to Ireland , which , according to the vulgar etrors of the times , was reckoned the firfr. habitation of the Scots. He found , there, that the Irish... | |
| 1785 - 456 pages
...to a very remote aera. Fordun, poflefled of all the national prejudice of the age, was un« willing that his country fhould yield, in point of antiquity,...and enemies* Deftitute of annals in Scotland, he had recouffe to Ireland, which, according to the vulgar errors of the times, was reckoned the firft habitation... | |
| James Macpherson - 1801 - 348 pages
...letter to the pope , had run up the antiquity of his nation to a very remote aera. Fordun, pofTeQed of all the national prejudice of the age, was unwilling...Ireland, which, according to the vulgar errors of tho times, was reckoned the fir it habitation of tiie .Scots. He found , there » that the Irifh bards... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...aera. Fordun, possessed of all the national prejudice of the age, was unwilling that his country should yield, in point of antiquity, to a people, then its rivals and enemies. Destitute of annals in Scotland, he had recourse to Ireland, which, according to the vulgar errors... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...letter to the pope, had run up the antiquity of his nation to a very remote aera. Fordun, possessed of all the national prejudice of the age, was unwilling that his country should yield, in point of antiquity, to a people, then its rivals and enemies. Destitute of annals... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...letter to the Pope, had ron up the antiquity of his nation to a very remote era. Fordun, possessed of all the national prejudice of the age, was unwilling that his country should yield, in point of antiquity, to a people^then its rivals and enemies. Distitute of annals in... | |
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