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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Scott, Sir Walter

Scott, Sir Walter
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Scott's Life.

No man was ever more fortunate in the time and place of his birth than
Sir Walter Scott. He was a Scot at a time when Scottish arts and sciences
flourished as they never had or would again. Hume in philosophy, Adam Smith
in Economics, Sir Humphry Davy in Science, and writers like Thomson, Boswell,
Smollett, and Burns, were part of the illustrious tradition into which Scott
was born in 1771. His early education was slight, but his mind grew up on
the ballads and stories of Scotland's glorious past. He heard many of them
for the first time ...

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