R. L. S (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from R. L. S In etymology, especially Gaelic etymology, all things are possible. However, what is certain about the family is that they grew of a stock of westland Whigs who dwelt in a corner of Renfrewshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century. For practical purposes their history begins with our author´s grandfather, Robert Stevenson (1772-1850). In 1796 his stepfather Smith, the first engineer to the Commissioners of Northern Lights, took him into partnership. He married Jean, Smith´s eldest daughter, for half a century was himself engineer to the Commissioners. He spent his life in a house built by his father and stepfather, I and 2 Baxter Place. There are strange points of resemblance and contrast between him and his distinguished grandson. The seas and rocks of Scotland were less figured on charts, less lighted and secure you might think, than those South Seas on which the grandson sailed a century later. The romance of the strange and the unknown had its attraction for both generations. The elder Stevenson was no student in his earlier years, but later a continual worker. He was liked and respected, though his hold was that of awe rather than of charm. The most obvious difference was the one was a man of action, the other a man of thought. The one controlled materials and forces, the other ideas. 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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