 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 522 pages
...is already discovered. I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could show the original ; nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...Public. "DOCTOR JOHNSON having asserted in his late publication that the TRANSLATOR OF OSSIAN'S POEMS ' never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other,' I hereby declare that the originals of Fingal and other pqems of Ossian lay in my shop for many months... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1897 - 496 pages
...is already discovered. I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have Seen. The editor, or author, never could show the original; nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - Authors - 1898 - 170 pages
...his "Journey to the Western Islands," "never existed in any other form than that which we have seen ; the editor or author never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other." Hume, the historian, followed up this attack by demanding proof that there existed in the memory of... | |
 | John Semple Smart - Bards and bardism in literature - 1905 - 256 pages
...contempt and intolerance. " I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor or author never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1906 - 270 pages
...is already discovered. I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor or author never could show the original, nor can it be shown by any other. To revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...Ixviii. Doctor Johnson having asserted in his late publication that the Translator of Ossian's Poems Wells" Charles Wells Moulton( I hereby declare that the originals of "Fingal" and other poems of Ossian lay in my shop for many months... | |
 | Karl Nessler - Ballads, English - 1911 - 210 pages
...believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen", sagt er in der Journey. "The editor, or author, never could show the original; nor can it be shown by any other ... It would be easy to show it if he had it ; but whence could it be had ? It is too long to be remembered,... | |
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The editor, or author, never could show the original ; nor can it be shown by any other; to revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence, with which the world is not yet acquainted ; and stubborn audacity is the last... 
