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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: without making mistakes. But the more we study George Buchanan's
history, the less we shall be inclined to hunt out his failings, the
more inclined to admire his worth. A shrewd, sound-hearted,
affectionate man, with a strong love of right and scorn of wrong,
and a humour withal which saved him--except on really great
occasions--from bitterness, and helped him to laugh where narrower
natures would have only snarled,--he is, in many respects, a type of
those Lowland Scots, who long preserved his jokes, genuine or
reputed, as a common household book. {16} A schoolmaster by
profession, and struggling for long years amid the temptations
which, in those days, degraded his class into cruel and sordid
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