Refutation of the Misstatements and Calumnies: Contained in Mr. Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart;, Respecting the Messrs. Ballantyne (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In acting upon these convictions of duty however, they are aware that they have done so under several disadvantages. They have no pretensions whatever to enter into literary strife with Mr. Lockhart; and they cannot st00p to engage in a mere war of words, re specting matters which must be judged and decided by the evidence of facts and docu ments alone. They are also fully sensible that, if Mr. Ballantyne had been still alive, he would have defended himself with far greater ability, and a much more intimate knowledge of the complex transactions they have been.

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