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... beginning of the eighteenth century was in some ways analogous . After well over a century of furious political and religious disputes , during which Scottish culture had all but perished , the Scottish people suddenly found that the ...
... beginning of the eighteenth century was in some ways analogous . After well over a century of furious political and religious disputes , during which Scottish culture had all but perished , the Scottish people suddenly found that the ...
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... beginning to show itself in full vigour . Hume had published his Treatise on Human Nature in 1739 and his Essays Moral and Political ( with more success ) in 1741-1742 . His Essay on Human Understanding in 1748 established his ...
... beginning to show itself in full vigour . Hume had published his Treatise on Human Nature in 1739 and his Essays Moral and Political ( with more success ) in 1741-1742 . His Essay on Human Understanding in 1748 established his ...
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... ( beginning ' Again rejoicing Nature sees ' ) was said by Burns to have been constructed around a chorus which was ' part of a song composed by gentleman in Edinburgh , a particular friend of the author's ' , but the chorus may well be by ...
... ( beginning ' Again rejoicing Nature sees ' ) was said by Burns to have been constructed around a chorus which was ' part of a song composed by gentleman in Edinburgh , a particular friend of the author's ' , but the chorus may well be by ...
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