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A CRITICAL
DISSERTATION
O N T H E
POEMS OF O S S I A N,
THE
SON OF FINGAL.
AMONG the monuments remaining of the
ancient ftate of nations, few are more
valuable than their poems or fongs. Hiftory,
when it treats of remote and dark ages, is feldom
very inftrudive. The beginnings of foclety, in
every country, are Involved in fabulous confu-
fion J and though they were not, they would
furnilh few events worth recording. But, in
every period of foclety, human manners are a
curious fpedacle ; and the moft natural plcftures
of ancient manners are exhibited in the ancient
poems of nations. Thefe prefent to us, what is
much more valuable than the hiftory of fuch
tranfaif^ions as a rude age can afford, The hiftory
of
DISSERTATION
O N T H E
POEMS OF O S S I A N,
THE
SON OF FINGAL.
AMONG the monuments remaining of the
ancient ftate of nations, few are more
valuable than their poems or fongs. Hiftory,
when it treats of remote and dark ages, is feldom
very inftrudive. The beginnings of foclety, in
every country, are Involved in fabulous confu-
fion J and though they were not, they would
furnilh few events worth recording. But, in
every period of foclety, human manners are a
curious fpedacle ; and the moft natural plcftures
of ancient manners are exhibited in the ancient
poems of nations. Thefe prefent to us, what is
much more valuable than the hiftory of fuch
tranfaif^ions as a rude age can afford, The hiftory
of
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Poems of Ossian > Volume 2 > (297) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/77479767 |
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| Description | Volume II. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.20 |
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| Description | "A new edition, carefully corrected, and greatly improved". (London: 1773.) In two volumes. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.19-20 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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