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  1. Complete summary of Sir Walter Scott's Old Mortality. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Old Mortality.

  2. 3.77. 548 ratings65 reviews. Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's Waverley novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland - the period notorious as "the killing time."

  3. Cause-of-death analysis is a useful tool for documenting the relative burden of cause-specific mortality in older people. This page provides mortality rate disaggregated by age and sex; and also ranks cause-of-death for people aged 60 years or over by regions and globally. If you have any feedback, you are welcome to write it here.

  4. Barrett, Deborah J. “Balfour of Burley: The Evil Energy in Scott’s Old Mortality.”Studies in Scottish Literature 17 (1982): 248-253. Analyzes the character in the novel who, more than any ...

  5. Old Mortality (originally called The Tale of Old Mortality) is an 1816 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. It's the second in the Tales of My Landlord series, a subset of the Waverley novels. Set in southwest Scotland in the late 1600s, the story revolves around Henry Morton, a Covenanter's son. Henry gives shelter to John Balfour, a man who ...

  6. Introduction to old mortality. 1830. The remarkable person called by the title of Old Mortality was well known in Scotland about the end of the last century. His real name was Robert Paterson. He was a native, it is said, of the parish of Closeburn in Dumfriesshire, and probably a Mason by profession – at least educated to the use of the chisel.

  7. 18 de abr. de 2003 · Oldest Old Mortality in China. We find that the Kannisto model, a two-parameter logistic formula, fits Han Chinese death rates at oldest-old ages better than the Gompertz and four other models. Chinese death rates appear to be roughly similar to Swedish and Japanese rates after age 97 for both males and females.