 | 1807 - 536 pages
...se" duced by the fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotch" man must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland " better than truth; he will always love it better than enquiry; " and if falsehood flatters his vanity, he will not be very diligent to " detect it." Nothing... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1807 - 530 pages
...se" duced by the fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotch" man must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland " better than truth; he will always love it better than enquiry; " and if falsehood flatters his vanity, he will not be very diligent to « detect it." Nothing... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...se" duccd by the fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotch" man must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland " better than truth; he will always love it belter than enquiry; " and if falsehood flatters his vanity, he will not be very diligent to " detect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. 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. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. 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. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. 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. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors.' 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. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 542 pages
...they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a 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. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 512 pages
...they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a 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. Neither ought the English to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 540 pages
...they are seduced by their fondness for their supposed ancestors. A Scotchman must be a 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. Neither ought the English to... | |
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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. 
