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Excerpt from The History of Scotland, From the Union to the Abolition of the Heritable Jurisdictions in 1748, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Subjoined, a Review of Ecclesiastical Affairs, the Progress of Society, the State of the Arts, &C. To the Year 1827
Like prince, Edward I who, notwithstanding the partial successes of Sir William Wallace, earned his victorious arms over the length and breadth of the country, and, for aught that now appears, had his life been pro longed for a few more years, would have rendered his conquest per manent and perpetual, which, saving the reverence due to national vanity, would certainly have been highly beneficial to both ends of the island. Pursuing the tangled web of continental politics which involved her in perpetual warfare, this, the most prudent of all her projects, was for some ages suspended, but it was never lost sight of, till, by the failure of the house of Tudor, and the accession of the house of Stuart to her vacant throne, she became more completely mistress of the country than she could have been by the most splendid feats of arms. 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.
