Download or read book Scotland Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Sir Walter Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2 The Author was invited to undertake this general Sketch of Scottish History in connection with a similar abridgment of English History by Sir James Mackin tosh, and a History of Ireland by Thomas Moore, Esquire. There are few literary persons who would not have been willing to incur much labor and risk of reputation for the privilege of publishing in such society. On the present occasion, the task, though perhaps still a rash one, was rendered more easy by the Author having so lately been employed on the volumes called Tales of a Grandfather, transferred from the History of Scotland, for the benefit of a young relation. Yet the object and tenor of these two works are extremely different. In the Tales taken from Scottish history, the author, throwing into the shade, or rather omitting all that could embarrass the under standing or tire the attention of his juvenile reader, was desirous only to lay before him what was best adapted to interest his imagination, and confining himself to facts, to postpone to a later period an investigation of the principles out of which those facts arose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Scotland Vol 1 of 2 written by Maria Hornor Lansdale and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2: Historic and Romantic Books have been written about Scotland from many points of view. Its prehistoric annals have been the theme of a number of writers. Its mythical history from the reign of Fergus in 330 b.c. Is given by its early historians. It has too a Roman history and a Celtic history of these but little will be found in the present volumes. The object has been rather to give a sketch, however incomplete, of the country from the great War of Independence in the time of Wallace and Brum to indicate that connection Of the present with the past that adds so great a charm to scenes of historical interest, and to give some account of ancient castles and ecclesiastical buildings round which circle so much history and romance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Ballads of Scotland Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by William Edmondstoune Aytoun and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ballads of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2 I believe that every editor of a work of this kind must have felt that in his first edition many errors and omissions were certain to occur. Having had the advantage of much sound and intelligent criticism from gentlemen who were evidently well acquainted with the subject, and enthusiasts in our older literature, I have been enabled in some places materially to improve the text; while, from private sources, I have received much information of a very valuable kind. The work has been subjected to a strict revision, and six additional ballad - two of them taken down from recitation - have been inserted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Whigs of Scotland Vol 1 of 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Whigs of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Last of the Stuarts; An Historical Romance of the Scottish Persecution I Pleasant to the soul, is the remembrance of the days of other years! History can lay before us only a general detail. Events, their causes and consequences, are the legitimate, and almost only attainable objects of the historian. Mor 3 than this it would be impossible for him to accomplish. Materials for minute details, are not usually preserved. And it would be utterly impolitic to attempt more. The tedious delineations would render his voluminous history inaccessible to the great majority of his readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The History of Scotland Vol 1 of 2 written by George Buchanan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Earliest Accounts of That Nation, to the Reign of King James Vi Neither was it the least inducement to this undertaking, that I hoped my pains herein would not be unsuitable, nor unacceptable to your Majesty. For I thought it shamefully absurd, that your Majesty, who in your tender years, have read the histories of all nations, and retain very many of them in your memory, should only be a stranger at home. Besides, an incurable distemper having made me unfit to discharge in person, the care of your instruction committed to me, I thought that sort of writing, which tends to the information of the mind, would best supply the want of my attendance, and resolved to send your Majesty faithful counsellors from history, that you might make use of their advice in your deliberations, and imitate their virtue in your actions. For there are, amongst your royal ancestors, men excellent in every respect, of whom posterity will never be ashamed; and, to omit others, your Majesty will hardly find in history, any Hero worthy of your comparing with our David. And if the Divine goodness was so liberal to him, in those most calamitous and. wicked times, we may with reason hope, that your Majesty will be (as the royal prophet says), A pattern of all those excellencies, which mothers desire in their children, when they give them their best wishes; and that this Government, which seems to be hurried on to ruin and destruction, may be supported till the time shall come, when all sublunary things, having finished the course appointed them by God's eternal decree, shall arrive at their designed period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Tales of a Grandfather Vol 1 of 2 written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of a Grandfather, Vol. 1 of 2: History of Scotland I Have now finished the task I had imposed on myself of giving you an opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of the past events of Scottish History; and a bloody and tragic tale it has been. The generation of which I am an individual, and which, having now seen the second race of their successors, must soon prepare to leave the scene have been the first Scotsmen who appear likely to quit the stage of life, without witnessing either foreign or domestic war within their country. Our fathers beheld the civil convulsion of 1745-6 the race who preceded them saw the commotions of 1715, 1718 and the war of the Revolution in 1688-9. A third and earlier generation witnessed the two insurrections of the Pentland Hills and Bothwell Bridge, and a fourth lived in the bloody times of the great Civil War; a fifth had in memory the civil contests of James the Sixth's minority; and the sixth race carries us back to the long period when the blessings of peace were totally unknown, and the state of constant hostility between England and Scotlana. was only interrupted by insecure and ill-kept truces of a few years' endurance. And even in your Grandfather's own time, though this country was fortunate enough to escape becoming the theatre of bloody conflict, yet we had only to look abroad to witness such extensive scenes of war and slaughter, such subversion of established states, and extinction of ancient dynasties, as if the European world was again about to return to the bondage of an universal empire. We have, therefore, had an unexpected, and almost unhoped-for escape from the evils of war in our own country, at the expense of beholding from our island the general devastation of the Continent, with the frequent alarm that we ourselves were about to be involved in it. It is with sincere joy that I see a period arrived, in which the rising generation may for a time at least be less likely either to hear of, or to witness, the terrors of actual war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Songs of England and Scotland Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Peter Cunningham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Songs of England and Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2 Preface to his Continuation of Ellis's Specimens. 'r Preface to the Translation of Juvenal. 1 Historical Essay on National Song, 1783. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Andrew Lang and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of Scotland From the Roman Occupation, Vol. 1 of 2 Miss Violet Simpson, and (in the period of the first Jameses) to Mr R. S. Rait of New College, Oxford, author of a recent work on Queen Mary (n utt, But my errors be on my own head! No general history, perhaps, can ever be so written as to satisfy specialists in genealogy, ethnology, anthropology, law, sphragistic, archmology, heraldry, numis matics, philology, affairs ecclesiastical and military, and all the other themes involved in the narrative of the develop ment of a nation. On the other hand, specialists will never combine to write a general history, and are apt, each within the fence of his special science, to disdain the populariser. But it is not necessary here to enter into the dispute as to whether history is science, or a branch of literature, or both. A History of Scotland, said'the publisher of Dr Robertson's work in the last century, is no very attractive title. That'in the hands of a competent writer with the space of Hill Burton or' Tytler at. His disposal, and with the' mass of recently printed State Papers and Letters to work upon, a history of Scotland might be made extremely attractive, I am convinced. Perhaps the foundation of Historical Chairs in Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities, and the active Historical Schools of Oxford and Cambridge, may encourage some Scottish scholar, still young and eager, to do justice to the romantic past of his people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book History of Scotland During the Reign of Robert I Sirnamed the Bruce Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Robert Kerr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Scotland During the Reign of Robert I, Sirnamed the Bruce, Vol. 1 of 2 To introduce the commencement of the important reign which forms the peculiar object of the present historical attempt, it appeared requisite to deduce the connexion of events from the fatal era in 1286, when. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book History of the Covenanters in Scotland Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by William Sime and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Covenanters in Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2 To recall, in some degree, the general attention to an epoch, the most deeply interesting in the ah nals Of Scotland, by furnishing an epitome Of its history for the use of those who either have not access to the larger works on the subject, or leisure for their perusal, is the leading Object which the Author has in view in the present publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland Vol 1 of 2 written by John Lee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Reformation to the Revolution Settlement It has often been the subject of regret to others, as it was to himself, that the pressure of engrossing public duties prevented the Author from accomplishing a pur pose for which, by the concurrent testimony of those of his contemporaries who were best entitled to give an opinion, he was so eminently qualified and it is due to his memory to say, that the present work, however valuable, and although presented in a form perhaps more adapted for the general reader, in many respects differs in its character from such a contribution to the history of ecclesiastical affairs in this country as he him self desired to give to the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Scottish Songs Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Robert Chambers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Scottish Songs, Vol. 1 of 2 From these motives, and with these views, the present' collection was undertaken. It will be found to contain'all the songs written in and regarding Scotland, which have either the me rit of being Old and characteristic, or that of being new and popular. No original songs are admitted, as in most other collections because it is inconsistent with the idea of a collection of the best songs of a country, that some should be accepted which have not yet endured the or deal of public taste. In an Introductory Essay, a view is given of all the facts known with cer tainty regarding Scottish Song in general and to almost all the songs are appended notes, con taining such anecdotes, and other pieces of in formation, referring to them individually, as the editor considered necessary for their illus tration, or at least mentioning the earliest print ed collection in which they are known to have; appeared. No songs of an indecorous nature, are introduced while from one or two others which are included, the objectionable passages. Are silently omitted; the editor judging it bet ter to fit his book, by that very slight sacrifice, for the use of the tasteful, the fair, and the young, than to consult the wishes of the antiquary; who, after all, has but little reason to complain of such violations, seeing that the songs are to be found, in all their native boau ty, in the collections of Ramsay and Herd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Wallace Or the Days of Scotland s Thraldom Vol 1 of 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wallace, or the Days of Scotland's Thraldom, Vol. 1 of 2: A Romance Local circumstances also support the truth of the tradition; for instance, there is a stone in Afton Glen that is called to this day Wallace's Stone. The name of the Celtic lords of Cumnock is altered from the original story, which represents it to have been m'rierick; and the m'riericks of Kerne, in the neighbourhood, are said to have sprung from the race. This family became ex tinct only during the last century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by John Ramsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 1 of 2 The Ochtertyre Manuscripts, from which the present work has been compiled, are comprised in ten bulky volumes, written during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, with occasional additions made until within a year or two Of Mr Ramsay's (the author's) death in 1814. Mr Ramsay had made very extensive notes Of his reading, recollections, and per sonal experiences, and had endeavoured to group them together under distinct heads. His own division of his manuscript is as follows Language, Literature, and Biography (of Scotland). 3 vols. Religion and Church Polity, and of their Influence on Society and the State. 2 vols. Government, Clanship, and Law. 1 vol. Prospects of Private Life. 3 vols. Tracts on Forestry, Female Education, Supersti tions, &c. 1 vol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Songstresses of Scotland Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Sarah Tytler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Songstresses of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2 HE object of the authors of this book has been to bring together into one group some gifted women whose songs are known wherever the Scotch foot treads or the Scotch language lingers. It was the part of famous Frenchwomen to reign in French salons; it has remained for this unique group of Scotchwomen to reign alike in the kitchen and the in the cottage as well as the castle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The History of Scotland Vol 1 of 2 written by Malcolm Laing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Scotland, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Union of the Crowns on the Accession of James Vi. To the Throne of England, to the Union of the Kingdoms in the Reign of Queen Anne Enslmdo beth's nomination, the throne was already fecured to James but the privy council, before they ven tured to proclaim her fucceffor, affeeted to con fult her laft declaration to Cecil, as a bequefl; of the crown. While they continued to deliberate, Mwh 24 Sir Robert Carey efcaped from the palace, and by means of previous relays of horfes, arrived at Edinburgh on the third day. The king had already retired to tell; but the meifenger, admitted im mediately to the bed-chamber, knelt, and faluting James as king of England, announced the glad intelligence of Elizabeth's death. A'iher ficknefs and danger were previou y known, the intelli gence was neither unexpeeted, nor received with intemperate expre ions of joy. But the king was unaffured as yet of his own fucce ion. After an anxious interval of three days, his apprehenfions were relieved by the arrival of Sir Charles Percy, \and Somerfet, the earl of \vorcefter's fon, dif patched by the privy council to notify the death of Elizabeth, the proclamation of her fucce br, and to affure him that all ranks acquiefced in his title, and languilhed for his prefence'. His ac ce ion was immediately proclaimed in Scotland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book Genealogical Colletions Vol 1 of 2 written by Scottish History Society Cn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Genealogical Colletions, Vol. 1 of 2: Concerning Families in Scotland The original sources from which Macfarlane's transcripts have been derived are occasionally indicated by him, and some account of these may be here given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.