The Bruce And Wallace Published From Two Ancient Manuscripts Preserved In The Library Of The Faculty Of Advocates With Notes Biographical Sketches And A Glossary By John Jamieson

Author : John Jamieson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332291694
Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book The Bruce; And Wallace, Vol. 1 of 2 written by John Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Bruce; And Wallace, Vol. 1 of 2: Published From Two Ancient Manuscripts Preserved in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, With Notes, Biographical Sketches, and a Glossary Every nation has testified the greatest veneration for her ancient poets. She has honoured them, not merely as the stars that have first illuminated her horizon with the rays of genius, but as the guardians of her early history, and the depositaries of her former language, manners, rites, and modes of thinking. This attachment, far from being confined to nations during their uncivilized state, has continued to characterize them when most celebrated for refinement. Every one knows the high honours paid to their first poetical writers by Greece and Rome, even when they had reached the zenith of their glory. With these it is not meant to compare the more humble writers of our own country. But they are to us what Homer, and AEschylus, and Ennius, were to the Greeks and Romans. It has, therefore, been matter of regret with those who feel a patriotic attachment to our early lore, that we have hitherto had no authentic editions of some of the first productions of the northern part of our island. 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."