Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, Vol. 1

Excerpt from Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, Vol. 1: With a Glossary of Scotch Words The next we see or hear of him, he is wandering, day and night, penniless, home less, friendless, destitute of decent raiment, the picture of wretchedness, in the streets of London. What he endured in the great metropolis, during that dark and dismal period of his history, may be gathered from the account that he gives of Dr. Musgrave in the Poor Scholar. It is of himself that he thus Speaks; it is his own bitter experience that draws the tears from the eyes of those who read that affecting narra tive. His disappointments in love and in seeking a livelihood, drove him to seek, for a time, the inebriating cup, and even to assume the guise of an unbeliever. He himself has well said, that the reasoning of a shabby coat produces more converts to every-day freethinking or infidelity, than the philosophy of Hobbes, the rhetoric of Shaftesbury, the wit of Voltaire, the sophistry of Hume, and the blackguard ribaldry of Paine, united. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.