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... Scotland , - a country where the peasantry honor respectable line- age , even in the persons of men of fallen fortunes , Scott had the advantage of being kin to a numerous line of namesakes , scattered over the south - eastern border ...
... Scotland , - a country where the peasantry honor respectable line- age , even in the persons of men of fallen fortunes , Scott had the advantage of being kin to a numerous line of namesakes , scattered over the south - eastern border ...
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... Scotland , his court , and family ; in " Quentin Dur- ward , " Louis the Eleventh of France , Charles the Bold of Burgundy , the brave Dunois , Cardinal Balue , Philip des Comines , and Oliver le Dain ; in " Anne of Geierstein , " Louis ...
... Scotland , his court , and family ; in " Quentin Dur- ward , " Louis the Eleventh of France , Charles the Bold of Burgundy , the brave Dunois , Cardinal Balue , Philip des Comines , and Oliver le Dain ; in " Anne of Geierstein , " Louis ...
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... Scotland without being able to describe , from per- sonal observation , what manner of man " the Great Unknown " was , argued a want of taste which was certain to lower the tourist in the estimation of his friends . Those who had not ...
... Scotland without being able to describe , from per- sonal observation , what manner of man " the Great Unknown " was , argued a want of taste which was certain to lower the tourist in the estimation of his friends . Those who had not ...
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... Scotland , on the 15th of August , 1771 , and died at Abbotsford , in the county of Roxburgh , at the age of sixty - one , was third son of Mr. Walter Scott , W.S. ( These initials indicate the second grade in the legal profes- sion in ...
... Scotland , on the 15th of August , 1771 , and died at Abbotsford , in the county of Roxburgh , at the age of sixty - one , was third son of Mr. Walter Scott , W.S. ( These initials indicate the second grade in the legal profes- sion in ...
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... hour , flourished by their administration of the prop- erty of the numerous class known as squires in Eng- land and lairds in Scotland . Owing to the great 2 number of his kindred scattered through the counties of Selkirk.
... hour , flourished by their administration of the prop- erty of the numerous class known as squires in Eng- land and lairds in Scotland . Owing to the great 2 number of his kindred scattered through the counties of Selkirk.
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