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their names, Comries and MacComrles, or
MontoGumbries, which are the lame people.
' The two Macpheribns, led by the fame
* wife Celtic ideas, defire we fhall in future
*^ know the Pids to be Gaels, of hur aim dear
' bind and bones; and they fay, Believe other-
' wife on your peril ; for are not we fkilled
* in the old Celtic, and new in nonfenfeand
' non-entity? And what are Tacitus, and
' Aramianus, and Bede, and all the other old
* fools to us ? Do not we know more than
' them ? Are not w^e two w^ife m.en, and quite
' of a new fchool ?^
One would expeQ that this rhapfody would
have been accompanied with quotations
from Tacitus, &c. to lead us to examine
and judge for ourfelves ; yet not one, but
becaufe thefe authors barely mention the
name, without enquiring, or informing
themfelves, whence their language was de-
rived.
Therefore Mr. Pincarton aflirms, that the
two Macpherfons are in the wrong, though
they knew the langu:^ge ki debate, and the
others
their names, Comries and MacComrles, or
MontoGumbries, which are the lame people.
' The two Macpheribns, led by the fame
* wife Celtic ideas, defire we fhall in future
*^ know the Pids to be Gaels, of hur aim dear
' bind and bones; and they fay, Believe other-
' wife on your peril ; for are not we fkilled
* in the old Celtic, and new in nonfenfeand
' non-entity? And what are Tacitus, and
' Aramianus, and Bede, and all the other old
* fools to us ? Do not we know more than
' them ? Are not w^e two w^ife m.en, and quite
' of a new fchool ?^
One would expeQ that this rhapfody would
have been accompanied with quotations
from Tacitus, &c. to lead us to examine
and judge for ourfelves ; yet not one, but
becaufe thefe authors barely mention the
name, without enquiring, or informing
themfelves, whence their language was de-
rived.
Therefore Mr. Pincarton aflirms, that the
two Macpherfons are in the wrong, though
they knew the langu:^ge ki debate, and the
others
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| Description | With a new and satisfactory account of the Picts, Scots, Fingal, Ossian, and his poems: as also, of the Macs, clans, Bodotria. And several other particulars respecting the high antiquities of Scotland. By the Rev. John Lanne Buchanan. A reply to ’An enquiry into the history of Scotland’ by John Pinkerton. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.216 |
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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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