The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 6Conner & Cooke, 1833 - English literature |
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... Scotland and England came to be Separate Kingdoms . ENGLAND is the southern , and Scotland is the northern part of the celebrated island called Great Britain . England is greatly larger than Scotland , and the ground is much richer ...
... Scotland and England came to be Separate Kingdoms . ENGLAND is the southern , and Scotland is the northern part of the celebrated island called Great Britain . England is greatly larger than Scotland , and the ground is much richer ...
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... Scotland , the land of the Scots ; and Eng- land , the land of the English . The two kingdoms were divided from each other , first by the river Tweed , then by a great range of hills and wilder- nesses , and then by a branch of the sea ...
... Scotland , the land of the Scots ; and Eng- land , the land of the English . The two kingdoms were divided from each other , first by the river Tweed , then by a great range of hills and wilder- nesses , and then by a branch of the sea ...
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... Scotland , and this had a considerable engaged in repelling an attack upon England by the effect in civilizing the southern parts of that country ; Norwegians , and was now called upon to oppose for if the Saxons were inferior to the ...
... Scotland , and this had a considerable engaged in repelling an attack upon England by the effect in civilizing the southern parts of that country ; Norwegians , and was now called upon to oppose for if the Saxons were inferior to the ...
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... Scotland . But Richard the First of England gave up the claim fifteen years afterwards , as having been unjustly extorted from William during his captivity , and reserved to himself only the homage due for the lands which the King of ...
... Scotland . But Richard the First of England gave up the claim fifteen years afterwards , as having been unjustly extorted from William during his captivity , and reserved to himself only the homage due for the lands which the King of ...
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... Scotland was and subject . to be preferred to the others . The people of Scotland are said to have sent ambassadors to Edward , to re- quest his interference as judge ; but he had already determined to regulate the succession of the ...
... Scotland was and subject . to be preferred to the others . The people of Scotland are said to have sent ambassadors to Edward , to re- quest his interference as judge ; but he had already determined to regulate the succession of the ...
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