ISBN: 9781154409536

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrat… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ANCIENT HIGHLAND POLICY AND MANNERS. To place my own views of Ancient Highland policy and manners in opposition to the popular opinion, will naturally incur the charge of presumption. But popular opinions are transmitted, for centuries, without criticism or enquiry; received, because current. If that indolence which shuns the enquiry that would disturb its repose, be thus flattered, so prejudice and affection have here concurred in giving reception to that which was also flattering to our feelings. The charms of romance too have been superadded; so that it has become as difficult to separate truth from fiction and to change the bias of the public mind, as it is unpleasing to oppose the popular belief. But History must not shrink froni its duties. The Historian, says Leland, must be armed against censqre by his consciousness of his love of truth, and by a literary courage which despises every charge except that of wilful misrepresentation. As to the ordinary writers, their opinions go for little; since they are seldom more than the transcribers of each other. From the herd of tourists, I can indeed except only Pennant and Johnson. But these subjects did not enter into the views of the former: and if Johnson''s remarks are those of a powerful mind, he has erred by reasoning on the current opinions which he took without enquiry. To such names as Home and Dalrymple, I might add many others; but the enumeration would, I believe, include all the writers who have either noticed this subject, or written expressly on it; every one of them, as far as I know, having followed the ordinary romance, and not one having chosen to see what the system really was. Hailes might have placed it in a just view, if he had chosen: and if he had, his name would have carried that Profe... John Macculloch, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland (Volume 4); Containing Descriptions of Their Scenery and Antiquities, With an Account Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781154409536

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrat… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ANCIENT HIGHLAND POLICY AND MANNERS. To place my own views of Ancient Highland policy and manners in opposition to the popular opinion, will naturally incur the charge of presumption. But popular opinions are transmitted, for centuries, without criticism or enquiry; received, because current. If that indolence which shuns the enquiry that would disturb its repose, be thus flattered, so prejudice and affection have here concurred in giving reception to that which was also flattering to our feelings. The charms of romance too have been superadded; so that it has become as difficult to separate truth from fiction and to change the bias of the public mind, as it is unpleasing to oppose the popular belief. But History must not shrink froni its duties. The Historian, says Leland, must be armed against censqre by his consciousness of his love of truth, and by a literary courage which despises every charge except that of wilful misrepresentation. As to the ordinary writers, their opinions go for little; since they are seldom more than the transcribers of each other. From the herd of tourists, I can indeed except only Pennant and Johnson. But these subjects did not enter into the views of the former: and if Johnson''s remarks are those of a powerful mind, he has erred by reasoning on the current opinions which he took without enquiry. To such names as Home and Dalrymple, I might add many others; but the enumeration would, I believe, include all the writers who have either noticed this subject, or written expressly on it; every one of them, as far as I know, having followed the ordinary romance, and not one having chosen to see what the system really was. Hailes might have placed it in a just view, if he had chosen: and if he had, his name would have carried that Profe... John Macculloch, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland (Volume 4); Containing Descriptions of Their Scenery and Antiquities, With an Account Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction <

2012, ISBN: 9781154409536

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