The Social Life of Scotland, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from The Social Life of Scotland, Vol. 1: In the Eighteenth Century In Scotland during the eighteenth century there were only two outstanding events which, after the Union, specially belong to its history - the Rebellion of ´15 and the Rebellion of ´45. Besides these rebellions, we find as State affairs of Scotland chiefly obscure intrigues of factions. Whig and Tory, Presbyterian and Jacobite; measures managed by leaders of Scottish business, who were servile followers of English ministries; manoeuvres of Scots nobles and placement who travel southwards on horseback or in coach to win favour with great statesmen at Westminster or courtiers at St. James´s - figures not very real to us to-day as they flit across the stage, "transient and embarrassed phantoms." To the end of the century - when Henry Dundas was "uncrowned King" of Scotland, pulling every political wire, and making local magnates and voters in town and country obsequiously move like puppets at his will - political life in North Britain was virtually non-existent. This book, however, does not treat of stirring and striking episodes such as the Rebellions, with their elements of high romance not unalloyed with dingy intrigue: for these a sketch would be too little, and here a history would be too much. 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.
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