 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.  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - 192 ページSamuel Johnson 著 - 1775 - 268 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 ページ
...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 - 1924 - 562 ページ
...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... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 ページ
...procedure. There are a few flings of the expected kind : ' A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth ; he will always love it better than inquiry.' But the aim is rather to describe the broad features of a partly undiscovered country — its system... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 ページ
...'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.'93 Andrew Henderson, outraged... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - 1997 - 450 ページ
...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... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 ページ
...Macpherson but on the character and integrity of all Scots: "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 natters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it." " Aside from his indignation... | |
 | Scottish Mountaineering Club - 1913 - 518 ページ
...comment, though who shall say it is wholly undeserved ? "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 flatter, his vanity will not be very diligent to detect it." Lastly, let me quote a passage... | |
 | Kenneth McNeil - 2007 - 236 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1775 - 652 ページ
...ieduced by their fondnefs for their fuppofed ancedors. A Scotchman muff, be a very furdy mtraliji, who does not love Scotland better than truth : he will always love it better than inquiry; and if fa I fe hood flutters his vanity, will not !><• very diligent to detect it. Neither ought the English... | |
 | 1775 - 804 ページ
...their fondnefs for their fuppofed »aceôon. A Scotchman muft be a very ßardy foräftß, who docs not love Scotland better than truth : he will always love it better than inquiry; and if falfehood natters bit талпу, will not be very diligent to deleft к. Neither ought the Engliih to be much... | |
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