Excerpt from George Buchanan and His Times Hugo Grotius, even went SO far as to call Buchanan that wonder of Scotland. But what the great Dr Johnson said of him is perhaps most interesting. Ah, Dr Johnson, said a rather foolish Scots man to him one day, what would you have said had Buchanan been an English man? Why, sir, answered the great doctor, I Should not have said, had he been an Englishman, what I will say of him as a Scotsman, that he was the only man of genius his country ever produced. 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.