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... 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 enabled them to extricate themselves from their father's ...
... 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 enabled them to extricate themselves from their father's ...
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... wrote for Jean , and what he wrote after Mary's death sounds a note of passionate self - reproach in an oddly conventional manner : See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? Mary's story was soon ...
... wrote for Jean , and what he wrote after Mary's death sounds a note of passionate self - reproach in an oddly conventional manner : See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? Mary's story was soon ...
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... wrote to Ballantine on December 13 , and a month later he wrote to the same correspondent that ' I have this day corrected my 152d page ' . In coming to an arrangement with Creech , Burns asked the advice of Henry Mackenzie , who ...
... wrote to Ballantine on December 13 , and a month later he wrote to the same correspondent that ' I have this day corrected my 152d page ' . In coming to an arrangement with Creech , Burns asked the advice of Henry Mackenzie , who ...
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