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... Ayrshire , in a clay cottage which his father had built with his own hands . His father had come to Ayrshire from the other side of Scotland in an endeavour to improve his for- tunes , but though he worked immensely hard first on the ...
... Ayrshire , in a clay cottage which his father had built with his own hands . His father had come to Ayrshire from the other side of Scotland in an endeavour to improve his for- tunes , but though he worked immensely hard first on the ...
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... Ayrshire and championed a local gentleman , Gavin Hamilton , who had got into trouble with the Kirk Session for sabbath breaking and other evidences of contempt for the strict observances demanded by the orthodox . He had an affair with ...
... Ayrshire and championed a local gentleman , Gavin Hamilton , who had got into trouble with the Kirk Session for sabbath breaking and other evidences of contempt for the strict observances demanded by the orthodox . He had an affair with ...
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... Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The Holy Fair ' and done with greater verve and dexterity . He omitted the ' Address to the Unco Guid ' , a somewhat pedestrian attack on Puritan hypocrisy which might have been included ...
... Ayrshire church politics in the same stanza as ' The Holy Fair ' and done with greater verve and dexterity . He omitted the ' Address to the Unco Guid ' , a somewhat pedestrian attack on Puritan hypocrisy which might have been included ...
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