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...Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A LEGEND OF MO...

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...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...ed, the Abridgement of Exercise, and divers Practical Observations for the Younger Officer, his consideration. Ending with the Soldier’s Meditations o... ...an old soldier to ruin himself by his folly, than had been the case in his younger days. It was not on such occasions that I made a part of Sergeant M... ...y into England; and it was avowed in a manifesto explanatory of their rea- sons for giving this timely and important aid to the English Parliament. Th... ...l- dom stirred abroad. When they had stood at gaze for about a minute, the younger gentleman gave the challenge which was then com- mon in the mouth o... ...do. To use the canting phrase of the saints in the English Parliament, the sons of Zeruiah are still too many for us.” “I must dissemble, then, as wel... ...mpany, who had watched him with some surprise, with an account of the rea- sons why he ate so very fast and so very long. “The former quality,” he sai...