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ON SCOTISH SONG. xv
landed in Argyle, and driving the inhabitants
out of that and the adjacent country, held pof-
feffion thereof for foiiie time : but, having been
expelled, it would feem, by the north Britons or
Picls, they returned with great force, about the
year 50 }, and founded a di(tinc~t kingdom, which
lafted till the year 84-, when, either by victory
or defcent, by force or fraud, their king Kenneth
III. furnamed, from his father, Mac Alpin, ac-
quired the dominion ofthePicts; who, however,
continued, at leaft in Galloway, a dirtinc! peo-
ple till about the middle of the eleventh century,
in his very interesting Enqu'ty into the H Jiory of Scotland, 17S 9
ha; been pleafed not only to contend that the Picts were
Goths, but to be very laviih in his nbuie upon thofe who have'
dared to think otherwife. A complete refutation or" tliis hy-
pothecs would require a large volume, and mul be expscled
irom fome able hand : but no one, in the mean time, can re-
frain from lamenting that a d 'fcuiiion fo curious and import-
art, and in the courfe of which the enquirer has cv.nced
uncommon induftry and fingular acu'enefs,(hould b; degraded
by groundlels afiertion, abfurd prejudice, fcuni'oas language,
and diabolical malignity.* Mr. Pinkertons only argument,
fetting afide his ful ninations of foJ, blockhead, Sec. which dj
not, with fubmiffion, appear indtled to chat appellation, .?,
that, becaufe the Pitts came from Scandanavia, taey were
confequently Scythians ; which by no means follows, fines
the " Celtic favages" (as he is pleafed to call them) had peo-
pled all that country long before his .avomite Goths arrived
in it.
* See his treatment of the Celts, wild Irifh, and Highland-
ers, fajjim. To fuppofe a particular people, who, i:i gen us
and virtue, are inferior to none upon earth, intended by na-
ture " as a medial race between beafts and men," and ftriously
propjfe methods *' to get rid of the breed, 11 argues a being
of " a medial race," between devil and man. The author
has been thought to be po fie fled with an incubus 5 he would
feem alfo to have been engendered by o..e.
ba
landed in Argyle, and driving the inhabitants
out of that and the adjacent country, held pof-
feffion thereof for foiiie time : but, having been
expelled, it would feem, by the north Britons or
Picls, they returned with great force, about the
year 50 }, and founded a di(tinc~t kingdom, which
lafted till the year 84-, when, either by victory
or defcent, by force or fraud, their king Kenneth
III. furnamed, from his father, Mac Alpin, ac-
quired the dominion ofthePicts; who, however,
continued, at leaft in Galloway, a dirtinc! peo-
ple till about the middle of the eleventh century,
in his very interesting Enqu'ty into the H Jiory of Scotland, 17S 9
ha; been pleafed not only to contend that the Picts were
Goths, but to be very laviih in his nbuie upon thofe who have'
dared to think otherwife. A complete refutation or" tliis hy-
pothecs would require a large volume, and mul be expscled
irom fome able hand : but no one, in the mean time, can re-
frain from lamenting that a d 'fcuiiion fo curious and import-
art, and in the courfe of which the enquirer has cv.nced
uncommon induftry and fingular acu'enefs,(hould b; degraded
by groundlels afiertion, abfurd prejudice, fcuni'oas language,
and diabolical malignity.* Mr. Pinkertons only argument,
fetting afide his ful ninations of foJ, blockhead, Sec. which dj
not, with fubmiffion, appear indtled to chat appellation, .?,
that, becaufe the Pitts came from Scandanavia, taey were
confequently Scythians ; which by no means follows, fines
the " Celtic favages" (as he is pleafed to call them) had peo-
pled all that country long before his .avomite Goths arrived
in it.
* See his treatment of the Celts, wild Irifh, and Highland-
ers, fajjim. To fuppofe a particular people, who, i:i gen us
and virtue, are inferior to none upon earth, intended by na-
ture " as a medial race between beafts and men," and ftriously
propjfe methods *' to get rid of the breed, 11 argues a being
of " a medial race," between devil and man. The author
has been thought to be po fie fled with an incubus 5 he would
feem alfo to have been engendered by o..e.
ba
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| Description | In two volumes. |
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| Shelfmark | Ing.62-63 |
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| Description | Scottish and English songs, military music and keyboard music of the 18th and 19th centuries. These items are from the collection of Alexander Wood Inglis of Glencorse (1854 to 1929). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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