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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: have only to mention Sir Dugald Dalgetty. This gentleman
continued, with the most rigorous punctuality, to discharge his
duty, and to receive his pay, until he was made prisoner, among
others, upon the field of Philiphaugh. He was condemned to share
the fate of his fellow-officers upon that occasion, who were
doomed to death rather by denunciations from the pulpit, than the
sentence either of civil or military tribunal; their blood being
considered as a sort of sin-offering to take away the guilt of
the land, and the fate imposed upon the Canaanites, under a
special dispensation, being impiously and cruelly applied to
them.
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