 I see you entertain a great doubt with regard to the authenticity of the poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand verses, along with numberless...  The History of Scotland - Página 190de George Buchanan - 1827Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any man of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 556 páginas
...thousand verses, along with numberless " historical facts, could have been preserved by oral tradi" tion, during fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps,...necessitous, the most " turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition " is so contrary to common sense, any positive evidence of " it ought never to... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 558 páginas
...credit. " It is in" deed strange," says Hume in a letter to Gibbon, " that " any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that " above twenty thousand...historical facts, could have been preserved by oral tradi" tion, during fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of '< all the civilized nations, the... | |
 | John Stark - 1805 - 488 páginas
...in, Iced strange that any nun of aer.se could have imagined it possible, that above IYKI:I/ thou>aad verses, along with numberless historical facts, could...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | 1808 - 1142 páginas
...certainly right in so do' ing. It is, indeed, strange, that ' any men of sense could have ima' gined it possible, that above ' twenty thousand verses, along ' with numberless historical facts, ' cotild have been preserved by oral ' tradition during tiny generations, 1 by the rudest, perhaps,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 páginas
...sense could have imagiiifil it possible, that ai ove twenty thousand verses, along with nunberless historical facts, could have been preserved by oral...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 páginas
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest perhaps of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | 1830 - 336 páginas
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest perhaps of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 páginas
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 páginas
...poems of Ossian. You are certainly right in so doing. It is indeed strange that any men of sense could have imagined it possible, that above twenty thousand...fifty generations, by the rudest, perhaps, of all the European nations, the most necessitous, the most turbulent, and the most unsettled. Where a supposition... | |
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