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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: many friends and patrons, he consulted what he considered to be
his relation's true interest, although he knew that in doing so
he run counter to his inclinations.
The Marquis drove on, therefore, with the plentitude of
ministerial authority, an appeal to the British House of Peers
against those judgments of the courts of law by which Sir William
became possessed of Ravenswood's hereditary property. As this
measure, enforced with all the authority of power, was new in
Scottish judicial proceedings, though now so frequently resorted
to, it was exclaimed against by the lawyers on the opposite side
of politics, as an interference with the civil judicature of the
The Bride of Lammermoor |
