Blair Collection > Celtic researches, on the origin, traditions & language, of the ancient Britons

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personal notice) for the advantage of reading
his able treatise on t\\o Origin of Lett era, Avas
kind enough to exert himself in my favour, at
an early period, and has Avarranted some of
ni}' opinions.
Mr, Maurice, the justly-admired author of
Indian Antiquities, approved my object, and
conferred upon me, one of the noblest gifts,
a copy of that inestimable work,
Mr. Bryant, Avliose personal character is
not inferior even to that of his literary fame —
though I had an caily intimation, that he
held my Celtic masters cheap, bestoAved upon
ine his name, as one of my patrons ; a name,
that ΛνΙΙΙ command the love, and veneration
of the world, as long as the pure faith, Avhich
he has illustrated, shall continue to improve
the head, and the heart of its professors,
I deplore it as a misfortune, when draAv*
ing from the same well, I differ Avith Ιώη, iu