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Excerpt from Two Ancient Scottish Poems: The Gaberlunzie-Man, and Christ's Kirk on the Green; With Notes and Observations
Had the laborious Johnfon been'better ac: quainted with the Oriental tongues, or had he even underflood the firfl rudiments of the Northern languages from which the Engliih and Scots derive their origin, his bulky volumes had not prefented to us the melancholy truth, That: unwearied induftry, devoid of fettled principles, avails only to add one error to anoa ther. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
