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own inferior and base colours, the noble prospect,
which is alike held out to us by philosophy and by
religion. We feel, according to the ardent ex-
pression of the poet, that Ave shall not wholly
die ; but from hence we vainly and Meakly argue,
tli;it the same scenes, the same passions, shall de-
light and actuate the disembodied spirit, which af-
fected it while in its tenement of clay. Hence
the popular belief, that the soul haunts the spot
where the murdered body is interred ; that its ap-
pearances are directed to bring down vengeance
on its murderers ; or that, having left its terres-
trial form in a distant clime, it glides before its
former friends, a pale spectre, to warn them of its
decease. Such tales, the foimdation of which is
an argument from our present feelings to those of
the h^piritual world, form the broad and universal
basis of the popular superstition regarding depart-
ed spirits ; against which, reason has striven in
vain, and universal experience has offered a disre-
garded testimony. These legends are peculiarly
acccj)tablc to barbarous tribes; and, on the Bor-
ders, thev were received with most unbounded
faith. It is true, that these supernatural adversa-
own inferior and base colours, the noble prospect,
which is alike held out to us by philosophy and by
religion. We feel, according to the ardent ex-
pression of the poet, that Ave shall not wholly
die ; but from hence we vainly and Meakly argue,
tli;it the same scenes, the same passions, shall de-
light and actuate the disembodied spirit, which af-
fected it while in its tenement of clay. Hence
the popular belief, that the soul haunts the spot
where the murdered body is interred ; that its ap-
pearances are directed to bring down vengeance
on its murderers ; or that, having left its terres-
trial form in a distant clime, it glides before its
former friends, a pale spectre, to warn them of its
decease. Such tales, the foimdation of which is
an argument from our present feelings to those of
the h^piritual world, form the broad and universal
basis of the popular superstition regarding depart-
ed spirits ; against which, reason has striven in
vain, and universal experience has offered a disre-
garded testimony. These legends are peculiarly
acccj)tablc to barbarous tribes; and, on the Bor-
ders, thev were received with most unbounded
faith. It is true, that these supernatural adversa-
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > J. F. Campbell Collection > Minstrelsy of the Scottish border > Volume 1 > (114) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/80609694 |
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| Description | Vol. I . |
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| Shelfmark | Cam.2.d.17 |
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| Description | Consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland; with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition. |
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| Shelfmark | Cam.2.d.17-19 |
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| Description | Volumes from a collection of 610 books rich in Highland folklore, Ossianic literature and other Celtic subjects. Many of the books annotated by John Francis Campbell of Islay, who assembled the collection. |
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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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