Ossian Collection > Enquiry into the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian

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THINGS Angularly novel, or of
the moft remote antiquity, ieldom
fail, iii fome degree, according to their
intrinfic merit or coll teral cncu n-
flances, of att afting the attention of
mankind. Of this obiervation the
poems a'cribed to Offian is a rare de-
monftration. Antiquity being the tafte
of the period wherein thefe pro.iudions
appeared in public, they were every-
where, and by every body, read, and
by many with admiration. Tlie frag-
ments the tranjlator at firil Tnewed to
the world, raifed the public expedla-
tions, infomuch that not only his ex-
pences were bo^ne in a journey through
the Highlands, by the literati in and
about Edinburgh, to coiled: more, but
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