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Page 72
... whole of the time we lived in the farm of Lochlea ' , wrote Gilbert , ' he [ William Burnes ] allowed my brother and me such wages for our labour as he gave to other labourers ' ) and so they were preferred creditors . This device ...
... whole of the time we lived in the farm of Lochlea ' , wrote Gilbert , ' he [ William Burnes ] allowed my brother and me such wages for our labour as he gave to other labourers ' ) and so they were preferred creditors . This device ...
Page 266
... whole legislative body , of the very same imposition and oppression , the Romish religion not excepted , and almost in the very same terms as our forefathers did against the family of Stuart ! I will not , I cannot , enter into the ...
... whole legislative body , of the very same imposition and oppression , the Romish religion not excepted , and almost in the very same terms as our forefathers did against the family of Stuart ! I will not , I cannot , enter into the ...
Page 310
... whole pivots . We are held by this romantic figure of the horseman bidding an eternal fare- well to his love , and in the last two verses the poem turns into a personal love elegy : livelong The soger frae the wars returns , The sailor ...
... whole pivots . We are held by this romantic figure of the horseman bidding an eternal fare- well to his love , and in the last two verses the poem turns into a personal love elegy : livelong The soger frae the wars returns , The sailor ...
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