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Notes on Historical References to the Scottish Family of Lauder

Notes on Historical References to the Scottish Family of Lauder

Young, James

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ISBN10: 1150466154
ISBN13: 9781150466151
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.30 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Original Publisher: Printed by Thomas Duncan Subjects: Scotland Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Reference / Genealogy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: INTRODUCTION. If any apology were necessary for printing this narrative, surely no more eloquent one could be adduced than the following quotation from Lord Lyndsay's Lives of the Lyndsays: -- Xothing, as it appears to me, can be less rational than the vulgar scoff at pedigree and genealogy. The adage so constantly quoted by the antiquary that no one who could lay claim to family antiquity ever despised it, undoubtedly meets with exceptions; but a reverence for the past, and a desire to establish a connection between it and self, are instinctive inhuman nature. And if instinctive, then, rightly directed, they must be ennobling principles. ' Whatever,' says our great moralist, ' withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.' I do not see why this sentiment might not have originated under the ruined towers of the De Veres or Percies, as well as among the cloistered cells of lona. lit is a mistake to suppose that the old feudal barons were uniformly worthless, tyrannical, unintellectual despots. Some of them undoubtedly were so, and those too of whom most is heard in history, and from whose character consequently the modern idea of the whole class is taken. But many of them, on the contrary, wereworthy of all esteem and affection, courteous, frank, refined, kind, and Christian. Descent therefore from one of the great historical f...

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