Excerpt from The Social Life of Scotland, Vol. 1: In the Eighteenth Century IN Scotland during the eighteenth century there were only two outstanding events which, after the Union, specially belong to its history - the Rebellion of '15 and the Rebellion of '45. Besides these rebellions, we find as State affairs of Scotland chiefly obscure intrigues of factions, Whig and Tory, Presby terian and Jacobite; measures managed by leaders of Scottish business, who were servile followers of English ministries; manoeuvres of ...
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Excerpt from The Social Life of Scotland, Vol. 1: In the Eighteenth Century IN Scotland during the eighteenth century there were only two outstanding events which, after the Union, specially belong to its history - the Rebellion of '15 and the Rebellion of '45. Besides these rebellions, we find as State affairs of Scotland chiefly obscure intrigues of factions, Whig and Tory, Presby terian and Jacobite; measures managed by leaders of Scottish business, who were servile followers of English ministries; manoeuvres of Scots nobles and placemen who travel southwards on horseback or in coach to win favour with great statesmen at Westminster or courtiers at St. J ames's - figures not very real to us to-day as they flit across the stage, transient and embarrassed phantoms To the end of the century - when Henry Dundas was uncrowned King of Scotland, pulling every political wire, and making local magnates and voters in town and country obsequiously move like puppets at his will - political life in North Britain was virtually non-existent. This book, however, does not treat of stirring and striking episodes such as the Rebellions, with their elements of high romance not unalloyed with dingy intrigue: for these a sketch would be too little, and here a history would be too much. Still less does it concern itself with the ways of politicians, who often mistook State craftiness for Statecraft, from the pettifogging schemers at the beginning of the century to the dictatorship and despotic party domination at the close: thesevi social life IN the eighteenth century. 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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