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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... clans , that is , tribes . The persons composing each of these clans believed themselves all to be descended , at some distant period , from the same common ances- tor , whose name they usually bore . Thus , one tribe was called ...
... clans , that is , tribes . The persons composing each of these clans believed themselves all to be descended , at some distant period , from the same common ances- tor , whose name they usually bore . Thus , one tribe was called ...
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... clans , they did not do much to mend the mands in peace or war , not caring though , in doing evil . Robert the Bruce committed great part of the so , they transgressed the laws of the King , or went charge of the Borders to the Good ...
... clans , they did not do much to mend the mands in peace or war , not caring though , in doing evil . Robert the Bruce committed great part of the so , they transgressed the laws of the King , or went charge of the Borders to the Good ...
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... Clans . The English termed them the Wild Scots , being excited by feudal hatred against the hostile and the French ... clans , or rather two leagues or confederacies , composed each of several separate clans , fell into such deadly feud ...
... Clans . The English termed them the Wild Scots , being excited by feudal hatred against the hostile and the French ... clans , or rather two leagues or confederacies , composed each of several separate clans , fell into such deadly feud ...
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... clan , and possessed of much influence on the Border . He had been once the friend of Angus , and had even scaled the ... clans of Home and Ker , both in league with him , and he had , besides , a considerable body of chosen attendants ...
... clan , and possessed of much influence on the Border . He had been once the friend of Angus , and had even scaled the ... clans of Home and Ker , both in league with him , and he had , besides , a considerable body of chosen attendants ...
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... clans of Scott and Ker , which lasted for a century , and cost much blood . This skirmish took place on the 25th ... clan , as guilty of high treason . But after the King had shaken off the yoke of the Douglasses , he went in person to ...
... clans of Scott and Ker , which lasted for a century , and cost much blood . This skirmish took place on the 25th ... clan , as guilty of high treason . But after the King had shaken off the yoke of the Douglasses , he went in person to ...
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