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... writing an account of his own early life to Dr. John Moore in August , 1787 , remarked that if his father had continued as a gardener , ' I must have marched off to be one of the little underlings about a farm - house : but it was his ...
... writing an account of his own early life to Dr. John Moore in August , 1787 , remarked that if his father had continued as a gardener , ' I must have marched off to be one of the little underlings about a farm - house : but it was his ...
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... writing , under my good friend Mr. Robison , desiring that I would come and speak to him at a certain Inn , and bring my writing - book with me . This was immediately complied with . Having examined my writing , he was pleased with it ...
... writing , under my good friend Mr. Robison , desiring that I would come and speak to him at a certain Inn , and bring my writing - book with me . This was immediately complied with . Having examined my writing , he was pleased with it ...
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... writing in the middle of the nineteenth century , the ' cantata ' was the product of an actual adventure , the details of which were narrated to Chambers long after Burns's death by the poet's friend John Richmond : The poem is ...
... writing in the middle of the nineteenth century , the ' cantata ' was the product of an actual adventure , the details of which were narrated to Chambers long after Burns's death by the poet's friend John Richmond : The poem is ...
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