 | 1860 - 656 Seiten
...countrymen, since the union of the crowns in 1807. "A Scotchman," says Dr. Johnson, " must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." The remark, for any thing we know, may convey to us a caution of which we are still in want in prosecuting... | |
 | 1860 - 600 Seiten
...countrymen, since the union of the crowns in 1807. " A Scotchman," said Dr Johnson, " must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better...always love it better than inquiry ; and, if falsehood natters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." The remark, for anything we know, may... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1860 - 412 Seiten
...patriotically wrote to please their countrymen ; as Dr. Johnson remarked of Scotchmen, saying a Scotchman loves Scotland better than truth, he will always love it...than inquiry, and if falsehood flatters his vanity he will not be very diligent to detect it. The Eugubian tables were thought to be engraven before Hesiod's... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1860 - 452 Seiten
...to Scotland and Scotchmen, recurred to me. " A Scotchman," said he, " must be a GLEN SHIEL. 391 very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth : he will also love it better than inquiry ; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 Seiten
...and it brings to mind Dr. Johnson's remark, in his Tour to the Hebrides, " that a Scotchman loves' Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it...than inquiry, and if falsehood flatters his vanity he will not be very diligent to detect it." This may be predicated of most family traditions. The legend... | |
 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 Seiten
...fiction ; they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." This rude attack roused Macpherson, and drew him forth from the silence which he had hitherto observed.... | |
 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 Seiten
...fiction; they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better...his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." * See BoswelTs Johnson, 6th eci., vol. ii., p. 273. This rude attack roused Macpherson, and drew him... | |
 | 1869 - 312 Seiten
...investigation for their new Royal Society. Dr Johnson, indeed, is of opinion that " a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it," he says, " better than inquiry; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1870 - 1344 Seiten
...an improbable fiction : they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotsman must be a sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland...truth : he will always love it better than inquiry, und, if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." — Tour to the Nebritles.... | |
 | 1871 - 632 Seiten
...were seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman," he said, "must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better...than inquiry ; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, he will not be very diligent to detect it." Macphersou's reply to this insolent attack was a challenge... | |
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A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry : and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. 
