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... century . Material conditions in Lowland Scotland did improve , if not as a demonstrable result of the Union , throughout the eighteenth century . But political life was dead , or , if it lived at all , hopelessly corrupt . The Scots ...
... century . Material conditions in Lowland Scotland did improve , if not as a demonstrable result of the Union , throughout the eighteenth century . But political life was dead , or , if it lived at all , hopelessly corrupt . The Scots ...
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... century to make this extraordinary revival possible ? Was the re - establishment of an intellectual climate hospitable to such varied activity the result of a final abandonment of Scottish traditions and the complete merging with ...
... century to make this extraordinary revival possible ? Was the re - establishment of an intellectual climate hospitable to such varied activity the result of a final abandonment of Scottish traditions and the complete merging with ...
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David Daiches. seventeenth century . It is to the seventeenth century that the half- comic epitaph on Habbie Simson the Piper of Kilbarchan belongs : remedy Kilbarchan now may say alas ! For she hath lost her game and grace , Both Trixie ...
David Daiches. seventeenth century . It is to the seventeenth century that the half- comic epitaph on Habbie Simson the Piper of Kilbarchan belongs : remedy Kilbarchan now may say alas ! For she hath lost her game and grace , Both Trixie ...
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