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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...he never for a moment thought of himself as one who was bound to leave the earth better than he found it; that he never seems to have so much as contemplated a social or political life for which he ought to contend; that he lived to some extent like a child blowing soap-bubbles, the brightest and most gorgeous of which, the Abbotsford bubble, vanished before his eyes,--is not a take-off from the charm of his career, but adds to it the very specialty of its fascination. For it was his entire unconsciousness of moral or spiritual efforts, the simple, straightforward way in which he labored for ends of the most ordinary kind, which made it clear how much greater the man was than his ends, how great was the mind and character which prosperity failed to display, but which became visible at once as soon as the storm came down and the night fell. Few men who battle avowedly for the right battle for it with the calm fortitude, the cheerful equanimity, with which Scott battled to fulfil his engagements and to save his family from ruin.--Richard H. Hutton. Scott, The Revealer Of His Own Country. It is upon Scott's early studies of the life of his own country, and what we have ventured to call his revelation of that country to the other nations of the earth, that his fame will always rest. Taken all in all, no such unbroken line of worthy and often brilliant work has been left by any other workman in this region of literature. They have done more to brighten the world, to soothe the weary, to elevate the standard of general, and what if the reader pleases we may call commonplace, excellence than any other works of fiction the world has ever seen. Not a word in them all has ever insinuated evil or palliated dishonor.--Mrs. Oliphant. SCOTT, THE CREATOR OF THE HISTORICAL...
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