Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1631 to 1800 > Comh-chruinneachidh orannaigh Gaidhealach

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faciety lias glven rife to new ideas,
and Qccafioned the introducflion of
maay arts, to whicli the Highlanders,
in their ilate of ancient fimpHcity,
were entire flrangers, and for which,
therefore:^ they could have no lan^
guage. In this fituation, it was but
natural to expetì, that the Gaelic
Poets of later days, in alluding to
thofe ideas and arts, ihould be redu-
ced to the neceflity of adopting, upon
fuch occaCons,. the Engliih idiom and
xhe EngUih term of expreiTion. Ex-
cepting wordsintroduced in this man-
ner, and which could not be altered
without doing vlolence to the mean-
ing of the author, no expreiTion has
been admiitted into the prefent collec-
tion but what is pure Gaelic, and nq
pieces have been received but thofe of
approved merit.
AIl the fongs are fet to mufic. The
nature of the language is fuch, that
the worcls properly fupport the found ;
the tunes are well adapted to the fub-
jedl, and commonly known and fung
by every perfon in the Highlands.
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