The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 5Carey & Hart, 1849 |
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The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 5 Walter Scott No preview available - 2015 |
The Waverley Novels: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions, Volume 5 Sir Walter Scott No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 108 - Know that you may, if it be God's will, gain our barren and rugged mountains; but, like our ancestors of old, we will seek refuge in wilder and more distant solitudes, and when we have resisted to the last, we will starve in the icy wastes of the Glaciers — ay, men, women, and children, we will be frozen into annihilation together, ere one free Switzer will acknowledge a foreign master.