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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

...he improvement of mankind, and with the progress of let- ters and the fine arts. As man has advanced from the ruder stages of society, the love of dra... ...who crackles his chestnuts at a Christmas fire. Whatever note he takes, he strikes it just and true, and awakens a corresponding chord in our own boso... ...y recruit from the doom which military discipline and the award of a court-martial denounced against him for the crime he had committed. No time had b...

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