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PREFACE. xxix
overturned it effedlually, and had very nigh
buried the whole Scottifh nation, together
with its memory, in one common grave*."
How the Irifh were employed, what they
adted, and what they fuffered, about a century
before the commencement of the Chriftian
aera, their own faithful annals can only tell ;
and few in number are thofe chofen perfons
who have accefs to thefe myfterious and fe-
cret records. That the Attacotti were upon
the point of deftroying the whole Scottish
name, when the excellent Moran mofl op-
portunely interpofed, thofe fele<5t perfons
' will perhaps only believe.
The Attacotti, in the foQrth age, were
a Britifli people. That they came firft from
Ireland flill remains to be proved. The Scots
indeed have been long ago faid to have been
tranfplanted into Britain from that quarter j
and had thofe learned Hibernians, from whom
Bede and Nennius derive their information,
ever heard that the Caledonians, Msatae and
Attacotti had been once confiderable nations
in North Britain, it is highly probable they
would have given all of them the honour of
an Irifli original. But their traditions did
not extend fo high as the fourth century,
when thofe names fell into defuetude. The
* DUTert. on the ant. hift. of Irel. Introduftion,
Pids,
overturned it effedlually, and had very nigh
buried the whole Scottifh nation, together
with its memory, in one common grave*."
How the Irifh were employed, what they
adted, and what they fuffered, about a century
before the commencement of the Chriftian
aera, their own faithful annals can only tell ;
and few in number are thofe chofen perfons
who have accefs to thefe myfterious and fe-
cret records. That the Attacotti were upon
the point of deftroying the whole Scottish
name, when the excellent Moran mofl op-
portunely interpofed, thofe fele<5t perfons
' will perhaps only believe.
The Attacotti, in the foQrth age, were
a Britifli people. That they came firft from
Ireland flill remains to be proved. The Scots
indeed have been long ago faid to have been
tranfplanted into Britain from that quarter j
and had thofe learned Hibernians, from whom
Bede and Nennius derive their information,
ever heard that the Caledonians, Msatae and
Attacotti had been once confiderable nations
in North Britain, it is highly probable they
would have given all of them the honour of
an Irifli original. But their traditions did
not extend fo high as the fourth century,
when thofe names fell into defuetude. The
* DUTert. on the ant. hift. of Irel. Introduftion,
Pids,
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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