The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 217
OTTBy William H. Prescott Take it for all and all, it is not too much to saythat the character of Sir Walter Scott is probablythe most remarkable on record. There is no manof historical celebrity that we now recall, whocombined, in so eminent a degree, the highestqualities of the moral, the… … BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 201 with the most wonderful facility of genius, hewas patient and laborious; a mousing antiquarian,yet with the most active interest in the presentand whatever was going on around him; with astrong turn for a roving life and military adven-ture, he was…
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