In the canon
Old Mortality
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1816
- Pages
- Pages 500
A young Presbyterian who refuses to be a fanatic gives one night's shelter to an archbishop's killer, is arrested, and joins a doomed rising where his own side condemns him too. He is exiled, and comes home when the king falls.
we are both fanatics; but there is some distinction between the fanaticism of honour and that of dark and sullen superstition.
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