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... friendship and needed to believe that they were more ' sympathique ' than they in fact were ; and so he welcomed their ... friends of Burns : ' Indeed I have always thought that no person could have a just idea of the extent of Burns's ...
... friendship and needed to believe that they were more ' sympathique ' than they in fact were ; and so he welcomed their ... friends of Burns : ' Indeed I have always thought that no person could have a just idea of the extent of Burns's ...
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... friends in a new world , and though some of these friends did him more harm than good - the irascible William Nicol , for example , Latin master at the High School , who became one of Burns's cronies - on the whole it was good for him ...
... friends in a new world , and though some of these friends did him more harm than good - the irascible William Nicol , for example , Latin master at the High School , who became one of Burns's cronies - on the whole it was good for him ...
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... friends as the Riddells and Mrs. Dunlop , dropping in oc- casionally at the Globe Tavern in Dumfries to visit Anne Park , writing anxious and helpful letters to his shiftless younger brother William , who was proving something of a ...
... friends as the Riddells and Mrs. Dunlop , dropping in oc- casionally at the Globe Tavern in Dumfries to visit Anne Park , writing anxious and helpful letters to his shiftless younger brother William , who was proving something of a ...
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