Burns's Chloris Author:James Adams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: some of which he admittedly annotated or recast; but, as Mr Waddell admits, very few, if any, of which he was spared ever to acknowledge publicly. Johnson's Muse... more »um contains 222 pieces, of which Burns acknowledges 108. Regarding the remainder, whether revised or in fragments, consisting of 114 pieces, no acknowledgment or claim was ever made by Burns. But he had been touching pitch, and he was defiled. For, as he was a genius, all the pitch that bore the mark of talent has been placed to his account. And regarding such productions, ''more" says Mr Waddell, "Minister of the Gospel," need not be said. After such a statement from a minister of the gospel—- " Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares, morality expires." Note C. Allan Cunningham's Unveracity. Page 31 of Text. The frequency, quantity, and quality of Allan Cunningham's misrepresentations have caused me to reflect seriously, from a medical point of view, as to his being mentally responsible for the habitual disregard of truth I have reprobated, and of which I have given sufficient illustration. He was a man of considerable talent, cela va sans dire, and "great wits to madness nearly are allied." There are young children who will look in your face and tell you, without winking, the most improbableand impossible stuff—"airy nothings"—and there are cases of mild lunacy characterised by the like peculiarity. The distinction between fact and fiction seems to them as impracticable as is the distinction between red, blue, or black to a man who is colour-blind. With even the soundest intellect, the transition from thought to thought is unconsciously automatic—cause and effect alternate. The homicidal lunatic hears a voice we cannot hear prompting a sudden bloody impulse. He reasons, but on wrong premise...« less