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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: quoted it, but with vulgar fame, which is always disposed to
ascribe remarkable actions to a remarkable name.--See the
erroneous passage, ROB ROY, Introduction; and so soft sleep the
offended phantom of Dugald Ciar Mohr.
It is with mingled pleasure and shame that I record the more
important error, of having announced as deceased my learned
acquaintance, the Rev. Dr. Grahame, minister of Aberfoil.--See
ROB ROY, p.360. I cannot now recollect the precise ground of my
depriving my learned and excellent friend of his existence,
unless, like Mr. Kirke, his predecessor in the parish, the
excellent Doctor had made a short trip to Fairyland, with whose
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