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18 DISSERTATION, &c.
the works of their bards handed down with great
purity.
What is advanced, in this short Dissertation, it
must be confessed, is mere conjecture. Beyond
the reach of records, is settled a gloom, which no
ingenuity can penetrate. The manners described,-
in these Poems, suit the ancient Celtic times, and
no other period that is known in history. We
must, therefore, place the heroes far back in an-
tiquity ; and it matters little, who were their con-
temporaries in other parts of the world. If we
have placed Fingal in his proper period, we do
honour to the manners of barbarous times. He
exercised every manly virtuJ in Caledonia, while
Heliogabalus disgraced human nature at Rome.
the works of their bards handed down with great
purity.
What is advanced, in this short Dissertation, it
must be confessed, is mere conjecture. Beyond
the reach of records, is settled a gloom, which no
ingenuity can penetrate. The manners described,-
in these Poems, suit the ancient Celtic times, and
no other period that is known in history. We
must, therefore, place the heroes far back in an-
tiquity ; and it matters little, who were their con-
temporaries in other parts of the world. If we
have placed Fingal in his proper period, we do
honour to the manners of barbarous times. He
exercised every manly virtuJ in Caledonia, while
Heliogabalus disgraced human nature at Rome.
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| Description | Translated by James Macpherson ; to which are prefixed a preliminary discourse, and dissertations on the aera and poems of Ossian. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.108 |
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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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