The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...
The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ... The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...
i_^4 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF CHAP. III. are now come to that important period WEof Mr. Macpherfon's Introduftion, for which all the reft was evidently written, for which we have feen all the annals of the ifland and continent diftorted from their true line, antient Hiftory garbled and contradi£led, and Mr. Macpherfon's own alTertions mangled and oppofed. We are now come to the Origin of the Scots.
THE BRITONS ASSERTED. 155 FROM p. 58 to 78, Mr. Macpherfon is engaged in a formal attack upon thofe pre- tenlions, which the Irifh have made to an original very different from the other inhabitants of the Britifh ifles ; in order to prove them and the Scots the defendants of Caledonians. And the attack is very eafy. Thqfe fabricks of fi£lion, which the Irifh predulity and patriotifm have been rearing for ages, all melt away before the flrong beams of Hiflory and Criticifm. But in- deed the romances are replete with fuch prodigies of folly, and are fo univerfally defpifed by the judicious on the continent and in our own ifland, that they were not worthy of a ferious refutation. And fuch a writer as Mr. Macpher- fon, engaged in fuch a contefl, feems to me like the redoubtable Sir John in Shakefpear, attack- ing a dead man fword in hand, and with one wound more in his thigh carrying him away in triumph \ Mr. * But it is proper to obferve, that almoft every arguitient in this difquilition is borrowed, fometimes literally, and ge- nerally without acknowledgement, from Innes's Critical EfT-.y, The reference to Strabo in p. 60 and 61 of Mr. Macpherfon ; to Mela, Tacitus, and Solinus, in p. 62 i the anfwers to objec- tions
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i_^4<br />
THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />
CHAP. III.<br />
are now come to that important period<br />
WE<strong>of</strong> <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon's Introduftion, for<br />
which all <strong>the</strong> reft was evidently written, for<br />
which we have feen all <strong>the</strong> annals <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ifland<br />
and continent diftorted from <strong>the</strong>ir true line,<br />
antient Hiftory garbled and contradi£led, and<br />
<strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon's own alTertions mangled and<br />
opp<strong>of</strong>ed. We are now come to <strong>the</strong> Origin <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>the</strong> Scots.
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