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... wrote in English for an English audience . And the prose writers all wrote in English . David Hume , Adam Smith , William Robertson , and other Scottish philosophers , his- torians and men of letters whose work was known all over Europe ...
... wrote in English for an English audience . And the prose writers all wrote in English . David Hume , Adam Smith , William Robertson , and other Scottish philosophers , his- torians and men of letters whose work was known all over Europe ...
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... wrote to a friend , enclosing the poem , as follows : ' I am a good deal pleased with some sentiments myself , as they are just the native querulous feelings of a heart which , as the elegantly melting Gray says , " Melan- choly has ...
... wrote to a friend , enclosing the poem , as follows : ' I am a good deal pleased with some sentiments myself , as they are just the native querulous feelings of a heart which , as the elegantly melting Gray says , " Melan- choly has ...
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... wrote for Jean when she was about to bear his child : O wha my babie - clouts1 will buy , O wha will tent2 me when I ... wrote for Jessie Leward , the girl who helped to nurse him in his final illness : with a supreme effort of the ...
... wrote for Jean when she was about to bear his child : O wha my babie - clouts1 will buy , O wha will tent2 me when I ... wrote for Jessie Leward , the girl who helped to nurse him in his final illness : with a supreme effort of the ...
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