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Highlanders
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Nursed in poverty he acquired a hardihood which enabled him to sustain severe privations. As the simplicity of his life gave vigour to his body, so it fortified his mind. Possessing a frame and constitution thus hardened he was taught to consider courage as the most honourable virtue, cowardice the most disgraceful failing.
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― Sketches of the Character, Institutions and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland
― Sketches of the Character, Institutions and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland
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The Highlanders are not without considerable quantities of corn, yet have not enough to satisfy their numbers, and therefore yearly come down with their cattle, of which they have greater plenty, and so traffic with the Lowlanders for such proportions of oats and barley as their families or necessities call for.
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― A Short Account of Scotland
― A Short Account of Scotland
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