Partly from being a more scattered population, which leads to self-dependence - partly to their religious struggles having given an historical character to their ordinary remembrances, nourished by that family pride which loves to look back - there is more individuality among the Scotch than among any other peasantry. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)

Partly from being a more scattered population, which leads to self-dependence - partly to their religious struggles having given an historical character to their ordinary remembrances, nourished by that family pride which loves to look back - there is more individuality among the Scotch than among any other peasantry.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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