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Author: Macpherson, James, 1736-1796.
Title: An introduction to the history of Great Britain and Ireland: By James Macpherson, ...
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Macpherson, James, 1736-1796.
Dublin: printed for James Williams, 1771.
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
STATE AND REVOLUTIONS OF ANCIENT EUROPE.
Preliminary Reflections.
The Celtae.
The Cimbri.
The European Sarmatae.
The Slavi.
Reflections on the Origin of the European Nations.
AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE Ancient British Nations.
Preliminary Observations.
The Gaël.
The Cimbri.
The Belgae.
Observations on the Three British Nations.
Ancient Names of Britain.
ANCIENT SCOTS.
Preliminary Reflections.
Origin of the Scots.
THE ANCIENT IRISH.
Origin of the Irish.
Letters unknown in Ancient Ireland.
ANTIQUITIES OF THE British and Irish Scots.
Preliminary Observations.
Spanish Extraction of the Irish examined and confuted.
Scandinavian Extraction of the Irish confuted.
IRISH EXTRACTION OF THE SCOTS EXAMINED.
General Reflections.
The Scots not of Irish Extract.
Proved from various Arguments.
THE PRETENDED TESTIMONY OF FOREIGN WRITERS EXAMINED, AND CONFUTED.
General Reflections.
Claudian.
Orosius.—Isidorus.
Gildas.
Bede.
Nennius.—General Observations.
ARGUMENTS AND PROOFS AGAINST THE IRISH EXTRACT OF THE SCOTS.
Stillingfleet and Usher examined.
Rise and Progress of the Fiction.
Negative Arguments.
Positive Proofs.
RELIGION OF THE Ancient British Nations.
Preliminary Reflections.
Their Idea of the Unity of God.
Their pretended Polytheism.
Their pretended Worship of the Heavenly Bodies.
Their superstitious Ceremonies.
Their Divinations.
Reflections.
IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.
General Reflections.
Opinions of the Celtae on that Subject.
The Paradise of the ancient British Nations.
CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH NATIONS.
Their Character.
Their Amusements and Diversions.
Their Morality and Poetry.
Their Persons and Women.
Their Manner of Life.
Their Houses, Navigation, and Commerce.
GOVERNMENT OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH NATIONS.
Reflections on the Origin of Go|vernment.
Form of the Ancient British Government.
Their Justice.
LANGUAGE OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH NATIONS.
General Observations.
The Language of Ancient Britain.
The Latin and Gaëlic compared.
AN INQUIRY INTO THE Origin of the Anglo-Saxons.
Preliminary Observations.
Reflections on the Fall of the Romans.
General Reflections on the Sarmatae.
Origin of the Anglo-Saxons.
RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS.
Their Religion.
Their Government.
INDEX.