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" You have a just and laudable zeal for the credit of these poems; they are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption,... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 429
1805
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The History of Scotland: From the Union of the Crowns on the ..., Volume 4

Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...poems : they are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities in all respects, that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters ; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson h^s - totally abandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself l...
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to ...

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1805 - 532 pages
...for the credit of thefe poems. They are, if genuine, one of the greateft curiofities in all refpects, that ever was difcovered in the commonwealth of letters...and I think it were fuitable to your candour, and moft fatisfaftory alfo to the reader, to publish all the anfwers to all the letters you write, even...
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to ...

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1805 - 532 pages
...the greateft curioftties in all refpects, that ever was difcovered in the commonwealth of letters l and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption,...and I think it were fuitable to your candour, and moft fatisfa£tory alfo to the reader, to publifh all the anfwers to all the letters you write, even...
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to ...

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1805 - 528 pages
...refpects, that ever was difcovcrcd in the commonwealth of letters ; and the child is, in a manjier, become yours by adoption, as Macpherfon has totally abandoned all care of it. Thcfe motives call ' upon you to exert yourfelf, and I think it were fuitable to your candour, and...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. Blair's critical ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...poems. They are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities in all respects that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as MACPHERSON has totally abandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself; and...
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The Poems of Ossian, Volume 1

Bards and bardism - 1810 - 364 pages
...are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities in all respects that ever was dis"Soin JfS. covered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself; and...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson. To which are prefixed ...

Ossian - 1845 - 546 pages
...poems. They are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities in all respects that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters ; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally ahandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself: and...
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Life and Correspondence of David Hume. From the Papers Bequeathed ..., Volume 1

John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 pages
...poems; they are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself; and...
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The National Quarterly Review, Volumes 11-12

1865 - 838 pages
...are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that ever was discovered in thf, commonwealth of letters, and the child is in a manner become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all care ofit.'\ Such was the sort of opposition given by Hume; does...
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The Life and Letters of James Macpherson: Containing a Particular Account of ...

Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...They are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that \ever was foiscovered in the commonwealth of letters ; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all e of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself, and I...
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