| Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - 1805 - 532 páginas
...note. From this man the declarant got for Mr Macpherson a book of tlie size of a New Testament, and cf the nature of a common-place-book, which contained...of the great Montrose ; together with some of the ,c ; , poems of Ossian. And Mr Macpherson obtained at the same time an order from Clanranald senr.... | |
| Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - 1805 - 526 páginas
...who was not himself a man of any note. From this man the declarant got for Mr Macphcrson a book of the size of a New Testament, and of the natur.e of a common-placc-boo&, which contained some accounts of the families of the Macdonalds, and the exploits... | |
| Ossian - 1807 - 596 páginas
...Macpherson got from Macmhuirich, the representative of the celebrated bards of that name, a book of the size of a New Testament, and of the nature of a common-place booh, which contained some genealogical accounts of families, together with some of the... | |
| Magnus Maclean - 1906 - 426 páginas
...and the Black. The latter, a thick little paper codex strongly bound in black leather boards, is of the size of a New Testament and of the nature of a commonplace book, containing accounts of the families of the Macdonalds, and the exploits of the great... | |
| James Buchan - 2009 - 468 páginas
...Appendix, p. 278. 60. Ibid., p. 279. Ewan MacPherson remembered it differently. He said that Niel gave him 'a book the size of a New Testament, and of the nature of a common-place book', which contained - amid family exploits and a history of the great Montrose - 'some... | |
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