Tales About England Scotland Ireland And Wales Classic Reprint

Author : Alexander Leighton
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ISBN 13 : 9781331268314
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 6 written by Alexander Leighton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 6: Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative; With a Glossary There is no class of men to whom the memory turns with more complacency, or more frequently, than to those who "taught the young idea how to shoot." There may be a few tyrants of the birch, who never inspired a feeling save fear or hatred; yet their number is but few, and I would say that the schoolmaster is abroad in more senses than that in which it is popularly applied. He is abroad in the memory and in the affections of his pupils; and his remembrance is cherished wheresoever they may be. For my own part, I never met with a teacher whom I did not love when a boy, and reverence when a man; from him before whom I used to stand and endeavour to read my task in his eyes, as he held the book before his face, and the page was reflected in his spectacles - and from his spectacles I spelled my qu - to him who, as an elder friend, bestowed on me my last lesson. When a man has been absent from the place of his nativity for years, and when he returns and grasps the hands of his surviving kindred, one of his first questions to them (after family questions are settled) is - "Is Mr -, my old schoolmaster, yet alive?" 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.