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Excerpt from The Jacobite Episode in Scottish History and Its Relative Literature: An Essay
With this explanation of the aim of the present essay, by way of preface, I shall proceed to sketch brie?y the history of the Jacobite episode, dwelling chie?y on the causes which enabled Jacobitism to retain so tenacious a hold upon Scotland, reviewing some of the more prominent' of its social and political results, and touching upon the literature, both contemporary and sub sequent, which it produced, and the in?uence which that literature exercised over the senti ments of the Scottish people.
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