"Nations, ?mall in their beginnings and ?low in their progre?s to maturity, cannot, with any degree of certainty, be traced to their ?ource. The fir?t hi?torians, in every country, are, therefore, ob?cure and un?atisfactory. Swayed by a national partiality, natural to mankind, they adopted uncertain legends and ill-fancied fictions..." Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1763 года (издательство "T. Becket, P. A. Hond"). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Temora, an ancient epic poem in eight books: together with ?everal other poems (Macpherson, James)