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It was considered dangerous
to exert any kind of pressure on him. Therefore, he was allowed to read whatever he
pleased and from an early age he began to collect old Scottish ballads and study the
history of his native land. By the time he was strong enough to go to the Edinburgh
High School, he had gathered an unusual store of knowledge.
He was apprenticed to his father. As a schoolboy he mastered the French and Italian.
Scott studied law and became sheriff of Selkirkshire and clerk of the Court.
He wrote a number of ballads. A book by Goethe gave him wider ideas. Scott wrote
novels, among which were "Guy Mannering", "Rob Roy", "Waverly", "and Ivanhoe".
Together with his former schoolmate he set up a printing firm, joining him as a
sleeping-partner.
For two years he suffered from very serious attacks of ill-health. He almost died. And
he still continued receiving visitors, who kept coming and going all the time.
His publishing firm went bankrupt
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