Chronicles of the Canongate
Chronicles of the Canongate
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The moral principle which so naturally and so justly occurs tothe mind of those who have been educated under a settledgovernment of laws that protect the property of the weak againstthe incursions of the strong, was to poor Elspat a book sealedand a fountain closed. She had been taught to consider thosewhom they call Saxons as a race with whom the Gael wereconstantly at war; and she regarded every settlement of theirswithin the reach of Highland incursion as affording a legitimateobject of atta...ck and plunder. Her feelings on this point hadbeen strengthened and confirmed, not only by the desire ofrevenge for the death of her husband, but by the sense of generalindignation entertained, not unjustly, through the Highlands ofScotland, on account of the barbarous and violent conduct of thevictors after the battle of Culloden. Other Highland clans, too, she regarded as the fair objects of plunder, when that waspossible, upon the score of ancient enmities and deadly feuds.
The prudence that might have weighed the slender means which thetimes afforded for resisting the efforts of a combinedgovernment, which had, in its less compact and establishedauthority, been unable to put down the ravages of such lawlesscaterans as MacTavish Mhor, was unknown to a solitary woman whoseideas still dwelt upon her own early times.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The moral principle which so naturally and so justly occurs tothe mind of those who have been educated under a settledgovernment of laws that protect the property of the weak againstthe incursions of the strong, was to poor Elspat a book sealedand a fountain closed. She had been taught to consider thosewhom they call Saxons as a race with whom the Gael wereconstantly at war; and she regarded every settlement of theirswithin the reach of Highland incursion as affording a legitimateobject of atta...ck and plunder. Her feelings on this point hadbeen strengthened and confirmed, not only by the desire ofrevenge for the death of her husband, but by the sense of generalindignation entertained, not unjustly, through the Highlands ofScotland, on account of the barbarous and violent conduct of thevictors after the battle of Culloden. Other Highland clans, too, she regarded as the fair objects of plunder, when that waspossible, upon the score of ancient enmities and deadly feuds.
The prudence that might have weighed the slender means which thetimes afforded for resisting the efforts of a combinedgovernment, which had, in its less compact and establishedauthority, been unable to put down the ravages of such lawlesscaterans as MacTavish Mhor, was unknown to a solitary woman whoseideas still dwelt upon her own early times.
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