My Schools and Schoolmasters
by Hugh Miller
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217239738
Paperback|9780217239738
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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: CHAPTER IIL ' At Wallace' name what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace side, Still pressing onward, red wat shod, Or glorious died.?Bubhs. I Fiest became thoroughly a Scot some time in my tenth year; and the consciousness of country has remained tolerably strong within me ever since. My uncle James had procured for me from a neighbour the loan of a common stall-edition of Blind Harry's Wallace, as modernized by Hamilton; but after reading the first chapter, ?a piece of dull genealogy, broken into very rude rhyme, ?I tossed the volume aside as uninteresting; and only resumed it at the request of my uncle, who urged that, simply for his amusement and gratification, I should read some three or four chapters more. Accordingly, the three or four chapters more I did read;?I read how Wallace killed young Selbie the Constable's son; how Wallace fished in Irvine Water; and how Wallace killed the Churl with his own staff in Ayr; and then Uncle James told me, in the quiet way in which he used to make a joke tell, that the book seemed to be rather a rough sort of production, filled with accounts of quarrels and bloodshed, and that I might read no more of it unless I felt inclined. But I now did feel inclined very strongly, and read on with increasing astonishment and delight. I was intoxicated with the fiery narratives of the blind minstrel, ?with his fierce breathings of hot, intolerantpatriotism, and his stories of astonishing prowess: and, glorying in being a Scot, and the countryman of Wallace and the Graham, I longed for a war with the Southron, that the wrongs and sufferings of these noble heroes might yet be avenged. All I had previously heard and read of the marvels of foreign parts, of the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217239738 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217239730 |
| Weight | 1.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 In |
| List Price | $26.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 368 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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