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... 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 ; the others being advocate or barris ...
... 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 ; the others being advocate or barris ...
Page 18
... died in April , 1799 , aged seventy , broken down in mind and body by a series of paralytic attacks . His mother survived her husband more than twenty years . Having thus stated , as concisely as was consistent with clearness , some ...
... died in April , 1799 , aged seventy , broken down in mind and body by a series of paralytic attacks . His mother survived her husband more than twenty years . Having thus stated , as concisely as was consistent with clearness , some ...
Page 19
... family . - " " In 1832 , when Scott died , there yet remained in the neighborhood of Sandy - Knowe two aged women , who remembered when the boy arrived there , in the spring of 1774 , before he had completed his third.
... family . - " " In 1832 , when Scott died , there yet remained in the neighborhood of Sandy - Knowe two aged women , who remembered when the boy arrived there , in the spring of 1774 , before he had completed his third.
Page 59
... died . " The Club , " which probably took its name from the well - known literary association founded more than a century ago by Sir Joshua Reynolds , Dr. Johnson , Edmund Burke , and Oliver Goldsmith , is still flourishing , like its ...
... died . " The Club , " which probably took its name from the well - known literary association founded more than a century ago by Sir Joshua Reynolds , Dr. Johnson , Edmund Burke , and Oliver Goldsmith , is still flourishing , like its ...
Page 85
... died not long after the publication of " The Lady of the Lake , " having seen the man with whose affec- tions she had trifled become the most honored in the land . Sir William Forbes , who died in October , 1828 , succeeded his father ...
... died not long after the publication of " The Lady of the Lake , " having seen the man with whose affec- tions she had trifled become the most honored in the land . Sir William Forbes , who died in October , 1828 , succeeded his father ...
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