Criminal Trials, Illustrative of the Tale Entitled the Heart of Mid-Lothian, Published from the Original Record: With a Prefatory Notice, Including Some Particular of the Life of Captain John Porteous (Classic Reprint)
Criminal Trials, Illustrative of the Tale Entitled the Heart of Mid-Lothian, Published from the Original Record: With a Prefatory Notice, Including Some Particular of the Life of Captain John Porteous (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Criminal Trials, Illustrative of the Tale Entitled "the Heart of Mid-Lothian," Published From the Original Record: With a Prefatory Notice, Including Some Particular of the Life of Captain John Porteous John Porteous, (says his biographer, ) one of the Captainsof the cityguard of Edinburgh was son to Stephen Porteous, a tailor in Canongate. The father had a fair character in his employment, and was esteemed a good honest man, in the whole con duct of his life; his greatest misfortune was to have such a son as ...
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Excerpt from Criminal Trials, Illustrative of the Tale Entitled "the Heart of Mid-Lothian," Published From the Original Record: With a Prefatory Notice, Including Some Particular of the Life of Captain John Porteous John Porteous, (says his biographer, ) one of the Captainsof the cityguard of Edinburgh was son to Stephen Porteous, a tailor in Canongate. The father had a fair character in his employment, and was esteemed a good honest man, in the whole con duct of his life; his greatest misfortune was to have such a son as John was. The father early disco vered in the son a perverseness of nature, and a proneness to commit mischievous, and more than childish tricks. The mother, out of a blind affec. Tion to her child, took them all for growing proofs of his mettle, and as marks of an extraordinary and sprightly genius. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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