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^ THE GENUINE HISTORY OF feems, the Scotch difdain to admit. And in that fpirit of humourfome pride, which had originally loaded the annals of their country with all the impertinence of dreams, the whole current of hiftory is to be violently oppofed, the Ireland of the Romans is to be interpreted into the prefent Scotland, and the Scotch are to be made the Aborigines of Caledonia. This conduct refults from fuch a littlenefs of foul, and betrays fuch a vulgarity of prejudice and paffion, that candour would gladly hefitate to believe, if fa»^ did not convince her of the truth of it. The firft appearance of this wayward folly feems to have been in the writings of Sir George Mac- kenzie, the firfl Scotch author, I think, who dared, however gently, to rejefl all the ruder and earlier fit^ions of the national hiftory '. The adhering remains of the legendary fpirit of the times, it appeared coaeval with the firit dawn of hiflorical liberty in Scotland, and has continued the com- » In his Defence of the royal line of Scotland, 1685, in nn- fu-er toBp. Lloyd's Hiflorical Account of Church-government, 1684; and in hi?FurtherDe:ence, i686,n-i reply toBp.Stilllng- flcet's Anhnadverfions prefixed to his Origlnes Sacrx, ibS^, Sir Georo-e was affilled in thefe works by Sir Robert Sibbald, Sir J unes Dalrymple, and fevcral other Scotch antiquarian^ (See Dalrymple's Colleftions, 1705, p. i. Preface). And Sir Georije, in p. 359 &c. vol. I. of all his works, repeatedly but filendy rejetls all the long accounts of the Scots before Fer- jrus I, and fo boldly cuts oft" a whole millennium fitim their haloiy. y panioQ
THE BRITONS ASSERTED. f panion and dlihonour of it to the prefent pe- riod \ And the fame fpirit has been particularly cultivated, within thefe few years, by two gentle- men of real learning and confiderable talents. One of them, James Macpherf n Efq;, to w! om the friends of poetry and hiflory mufl acknow- ledge themielves grcady indebted, for callinc: out the Poems of Offian from their original obfcurity in an unknown language and an unvilited corner ,pf the ifland, apd for giving them to us in a ver- fion that feems to be at once bold and faithful, all .animation, harmony, and grace; this gendeman, in his prefaces and notes to thofe poems, revived and enlarged the fydem of Sir George, purfued and invigorated his attempts, and violently engaged the Caledonian bard in the conteR. And Mr.Macpherfon v/as feconded in the year 1768 by John Macpherfon D.D., a miniler In the Ifle of Sky, and the author of Critical DiiTertations on the Origin kc. of the antlent Caledonians, the Pi£ls, and the Scots. This work, the intended * In Sir Robert Sibbald's treatifc on the Thiile of the an- tients, publifhed in Wallace's Orkney lilands, 1693, and Glbfon's Camden, 169^; in Sir James Dalrymple's Collec- tions for the Scotrifli hiftory, 1705 ; in Dr. Mackenzie's Pre- face to his Lives of Scots Writers, vol. III. fol. 1708 ; in Dr. Abercromby's IMartial Atchievements of the Scots nation, in vol. I][. fol. 171 1 ; &:c. !kc. &:c. B 3 publication
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 113 of Galgac
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 131 The name
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 133 reafoning
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 135 plierfons
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 137 it natura
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 155 FROM p. 5
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 159 lefponden
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 169 much, as
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 171 Mr. Macph
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THE SRitONS ASSERTED. 177 Separatel
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THE BHITONS ASSERTED. 1S9 Quid rigo
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THE BRITONS ASSERTED. ag; Scots wer
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300 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF dark, in
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302 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF trariety
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