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i6 THE ROMANCE OF THE HIGHLANDS.
poured army after army against her, she fought for dear
life, and she retained it —
"For Freedom's battle once begun
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son
Though baffled oft, is ever won."
Voltaire has said that "he who serves his country
well has no need of ancestors," but the influence of the
noble virtues of past generations is no discouragement to
any one. The flag that a Scotsman marches under is the
oldest national flag in the world, and that is surely an
incentive to keep it unsullied and proudly flying. Who
can read that Document of Freedom of the English
Parliament to the Scottish people of the year 1328
without a natural feeling of national pride : —
"We grant, and hereby do grant for us and our
heirs and successors whatsoever that the Kingdom of
Scotland shall remain for ever to the magnificent prince
and lord Robert, by the Grace of God the illustrious
King of Scots, our ally and dear friend, and to his heirs
and successors free, entire, and unmolested, separated
from the Kingdom of England by its respective marches
in the time of Alexander King of Scotland of good
memory, lately deceased, without any subjection,
servitude, claim, or demand whatsoever."
By the terms of this treaty the Coronation Stone
should have been returned to Scotland, but when it
became known in London that the intention was to
return it the people rose in tumultuous mobs and would
not allow its removal under any conditions. The matter
was not pressed by the Scots, and if the stone could not
come to them the Kings of Scotland could, at least, go
to it, and so the old prophesy is fulfilled, "If the fates
be true wherever the stone is found the Scottish race
shall reign."
poured army after army against her, she fought for dear
life, and she retained it —
"For Freedom's battle once begun
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son
Though baffled oft, is ever won."
Voltaire has said that "he who serves his country
well has no need of ancestors," but the influence of the
noble virtues of past generations is no discouragement to
any one. The flag that a Scotsman marches under is the
oldest national flag in the world, and that is surely an
incentive to keep it unsullied and proudly flying. Who
can read that Document of Freedom of the English
Parliament to the Scottish people of the year 1328
without a natural feeling of national pride : —
"We grant, and hereby do grant for us and our
heirs and successors whatsoever that the Kingdom of
Scotland shall remain for ever to the magnificent prince
and lord Robert, by the Grace of God the illustrious
King of Scots, our ally and dear friend, and to his heirs
and successors free, entire, and unmolested, separated
from the Kingdom of England by its respective marches
in the time of Alexander King of Scotland of good
memory, lately deceased, without any subjection,
servitude, claim, or demand whatsoever."
By the terms of this treaty the Coronation Stone
should have been returned to Scotland, but when it
became known in London that the intention was to
return it the people rose in tumultuous mobs and would
not allow its removal under any conditions. The matter
was not pressed by the Scots, and if the stone could not
come to them the Kings of Scotland could, at least, go
to it, and so the old prophesy is fulfilled, "If the fates
be true wherever the stone is found the Scottish race
shall reign."
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Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Romance of the Highlands > (42) |
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Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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