Excerpt from The History of Scotland, Vol. 6 of 6: Translated From the Latin; With Notes, and a Continuation to the Present Time Looxmo down from the eminence on which we now stand, with all the advantages of time, and with a full view of the consequences before us, we wonder that an object of such evident utility, and productive of such important bene fit to Scotland, as the union of the. Two kingdoms, should ever have encountered such virulent and unremitting oppo sitiou as attended its progressa - should ever have been branded as a disgrace, or predicted as the min of the na tion it was destined to raise from poverty to wealth, and from insignificance to an importance in the European fami ly, which, without that conjunction, it could never have hoped to attain. But in order properly to understand this opposition, we must transport ourselves back to the days of our fathers, revive their prejudices, enter into their feelings. 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.