The genuine history of the Britons asserted against Mr. Macpherson ...

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THE GENUINE HISTORY OF
all hoftile words from the quotations, and the
officious interpolation of friendly in their room,
fafis that appear evident upon the face of the
extracts above, certainly give an unhappy afpeft
of difmgenuoufnefs to the whole, and may feem
to difcredit the integrity and honour of Mr.
Macpherfon. But any one that has felt in his
own bread the prevailing bias of either fyfte-
matical or national prejudices, and can therefore
make the proper allowance for the force of both
together, will eafily acquit him of any intentional
frauds, and will refer all to its immediate caufe,
to prepolTeffions which have enllaved the flrongell
intellefts, and to weakneffes which are the ground-
Work of all the patriot virtues.
P. 10— 12. " The German Celtse (Celtae five.
*^ Galli quos Cimbros vocant. Appian. in II-
'* lyr.— ) repaired the Rhine, committed terrible
*' devadations, and — extended their conqueds
" to Spain— . The Lufitanians, according to
" Diodorus Siculus, were the mod warlike branch
** of the Cimbri (^uXxiix^cojccjoi ^i-j ncri oi KCcK'^^iyot
" Av'f'ijuvoi. Diod. Sic. lib. v.)."
Here we meet with the fame drain of falfe
quotation, as we have already remarked in the
preceding articles. — The paflage in Appian,
which is here applied to the German Celtte, belongs
to the Native Gauls in the original. Eofdem
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