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Excerpt from Redburn
Talk of development and progress develop ment and progress forsooth! For the broad Doric, with its subtle phrasing and marvellous power of expressing the most delicate as well as the loftiest thoughts and feelings, we have now a vulgarised jargon; and for the homely couthie peasantry, a mixed rabble, difficult to describe. The farmer and his man are no longer friends, but strangers to each other, and a spirit of feud divides them. May it be, however, that there are signs of a return to that golden age, when its sweet memories shall again become living truths in the lives of the Scottish people? 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.
