Excerpt from Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Vol. 1 of 2 However, I believe, although he would scarcely have admitted it, that the well known Scotch feel ing of pride in being a Scotchman lay hidden in a corner of his heart. Be this as it may, at least one trait came to him from the old Highland clan, namely, an intense interest in all his relatives far and near, and a feeling of his responsibility towards them to the sixth generation. The thought of a relation's becoming bankrupt was horrible to him, and ...
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Excerpt from Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Vol. 1 of 2 However, I believe, although he would scarcely have admitted it, that the well known Scotch feel ing of pride in being a Scotchman lay hidden in a corner of his heart. Be this as it may, at least one trait came to him from the old Highland clan, namely, an intense interest in all his relatives far and near, and a feeling of his responsibility towards them to the sixth generation. The thought of a relation's becoming bankrupt was horrible to him, and many a plunge he took into distasteful business in order to prevent such a catastrophe, or to remedy it, as far as possible, if it had already occurred. 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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