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... Erse books , without any direc- tion , and suspect that they are intended for the Oxford library . If that is the intention , I think it will be proper to add the metrical psalms , and whatever else is printed in Erse , that the present ...
... Erse books , without any direc- tion , and suspect that they are intended for the Oxford library . If that is the intention , I think it will be proper to add the metrical psalms , and whatever else is printed in Erse , that the present ...
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... Erse language ; and that he This question , which Johnson does not appear to have answered , alludes to the following letter which Becket printed in the newspapers : " Dr. Johnson having asserted in his late publication , that the ...
... Erse language ; and that he This question , which Johnson does not appear to have answered , alludes to the following letter which Becket printed in the newspapers : " Dr. Johnson having asserted in his late publication , that the ...
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... Erse language was never written till very lately for the purposes of religion . A nation that cannot write , or a language that was never written , has no manu- scripts . " But whatever he has he never offered to show . If old ...
... Erse language was never written till very lately for the purposes of religion . A nation that cannot write , or a language that was never written , has no manu- scripts . " But whatever he has he never offered to show . If old ...
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... Erse language , which was reported to be preserved somewhere in those regions . But when there came forth an epick poem in six books , with all the common circum- stances of former compositions of that nature ; and when , upon an ...
... Erse language , which was reported to be preserved somewhere in those regions . But when there came forth an epick poem in six books , with all the common circum- stances of former compositions of that nature ; and when , upon an ...
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... Erse language , and the antiquity of their manuscripts . I am quite convinced ; and I shall rank Ossian and his Fingals and Oscars amongst the nursery tales , not the true history of our country , in all time to come . " Upon the whole ...
... Erse language , and the antiquity of their manuscripts . I am quite convinced ; and I shall rank Ossian and his Fingals and Oscars amongst the nursery tales , not the true history of our country , in all time to come . " Upon the whole ...
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