Sir Walter Scott
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Scott
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Novelist cited as an example of a formerly persuasive opponent of reform.
The arguments in favour of practical conservatism which, put forward by Burke or Paley, satisfied at least two generations, so lost their popular force that modern Conservatives, no less than modern Liberals, find it hard to understand the attitude towards reform of men as able as Canning or Sir Walter Scott.
“The unhappy dislocation,” writes Sir Walter Scott, “which has taken place betwixt the employer and those in his employment has been attended with very fatal consequences.
That such regulations would secure tranquillity is quite certain, for notwithstanding the general influence of example, the workmen in some of the greatest manufactures did not furnish a single recruit to Radicalism.
The Law of Torts
Author and lawyer quoted objecting to notice boards threatening prosecution, and identified as the author of the Waverley Novels.
It was partly the legal knowledge and tastes displayed in the Waverley Novels that identified him in the eyes of the best critics as the author.
In this third flight the squib meets with Scott, strikes him in the face, and explodes, destroying the sight of one eye.