 | Songs, Scots - 1714 - 430 pages
...fturdy moralift, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it," he fays, " better than inquiry : and, if falfehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." He is fpeaking of another forgery, — the poems of Offian. However this may be, the fact is iacontefhble... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1775 - 664 pages
...their Jondnefs for their fuppofed anceftors. A Scotchman nrjit be a very fturdy moralil}, who does not love Scotland better than truth; he will always love it better than inquiry ; and if fa'fehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to de-left it. Neither ought the Er.glijh... | |
 | Donald MacNicol - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1779 - 392 pages
...their fondnefs for their fuppofed anccftors. A Scotchman muft be a very 'fturdy moralift, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always...flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to deted it." As an impofture is the laft thing of which a gentleman can be fuppofed guilty, it is the... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...(ante, ii. 356) returns to Johnson's assertion that 'a Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry.' Works, ix. 1 16. 1 See ante, p. 44. ' A protest may be entered on the part of most Scotsmen against... | |
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 636 pages
...their * fbndnefs for their fuppofed anceftors. A Scotch* man muft be a very fturdy moralift, who does not * love Scotland better than truth; he will always ' love it better than inquiry : and, if falfhood flatters * his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. c Neither ought the Englifh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...their f fondnefs for their fuppofed anceftors. A Scotchc man muft be a very fturdy moralift, who docs not ' love Scotland better than truth ; he will always ' love it better than inquiry : and, if falihood flatters ' his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. * Neither ought the Englilh... | |
 | Sir John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 634 pages
...their ' fondnefs for their fuppofed anceftors. A Scotch' man muft be a very fturdy moralift, who does not * love Scotland better than truth ; he will always ' love it better than inquiry : and, if falfhood flatters ' his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. * Neither ought the Englifh... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 640 pages
...* love Scotland better thjn truth ; he will always ' love it better than inquiry; and, if falfhood flatters ' his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it. ' Neither ought the Englifh to be much influenced e by Scotch authority ; for of the paft and prefent 1 ftate of the whole... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...their fondnefs for their fuppofed anceftors. A Scotchman mufl be a very flurdy rnoralift, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than enquiry : and if falfehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detedt it. Neither ought... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1787 - 652 pages
...Scotland better than truth ; he will always ' love it better than inquiry : and, if falfhood flatters f his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.' * Neither ought the Englifh to be much influenced * by Scotch authority ; for of the paft and prefent * ftate of the whole... | |
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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. 
