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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Fair as the earliest beams of eastern light, Fair as that beam?the fairest far, Giving to horror grace, to danger pride, Shines martial faith and courtesy's bright star Through all the wreckful storms that cloud the brow of war. ?Sir Walter Scott. It is not often in these eminently practical times that the romantic and stirring episodes of a man's life should all take place after he has attained his seventieth year. Such, however, in a more heroic age, was the case with the stately old nobleman of whom we propose to give a brief account, as his fine character and eventful career deserve to be better known than they have been hitherto. We have fortunately unusual advantages for such a record in the possession of material for which we are indebted in part to Sir Walter Scott and also to private sources of information. Many years ago a very quaint and matter-of-fact biography oi Lord Pitsligo was published along with a work of his own composition, which was reviewed at some length by the author of 'Waverley.' That review, bearing all the characteristics of the great writer's well-known style, with the little book itself, is now in onr hands, and the family traditions on the subject are of a very vivid description. The grandfather of the present writer was Lord Pitsligo's great-nephew and heir, on whom his impoverished estates devolved, with the territorial name shorn of its title, as the penalty of his devotion to a hopeless Cause; and among his descendants?the old man, who died at the age of eighty-five in the year 1762, has ever existed as a living personality and a priceless example of fortitude and self-abnegation. The motive power of his whole existence was his unswerving fidelity to one idea?une idee fixe; he believed in the divine right of kings, and to that well-...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217061377
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 210
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217061370
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 386 gr


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