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The situation in Scotland at 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 ...
The situation in Scotland at 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 ...
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By the middle of the century this new intellectual life in Scotland , more especially in Edinburgh , was beginning to show itself in full vigour . Hume had published his Treatise on Human Nature in 1739 and his Essays Moral and ...
By the middle of the century this new intellectual life in Scotland , more especially in Edinburgh , was beginning to show itself in full vigour . Hume had published his Treatise on Human Nature in 1739 and his Essays Moral and ...
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next ; wager deserts The poem now dies away on a simple , matter - of - fact note , recalling the beginning of the narrative : beyond ; twelve But just as he began ...
next ; wager deserts The poem now dies away on a simple , matter - of - fact note , recalling the beginning of the narrative : beyond ; twelve But just as he began ...
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| Title | Robert Burns |
| Author | David Daiches |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 334 pages |
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