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Page 48
... young Noblesse and Gentry have a just sense of the immense distance between them and their ragged Play- fellows . It takes a few dashes into the world to give the young Great man that proper , decent , unnoticing disregard for the poor ...
... young Noblesse and Gentry have a just sense of the immense distance between them and their ragged Play- fellows . It takes a few dashes into the world to give the young Great man that proper , decent , unnoticing disregard for the poor ...
Page 60
... young men were trying to domicile the English genteel tradition in rural Scotland . The careful formality , the insistence on parliamentary procedure , the pure neoclassic English of the statement - these show an ambition to emulate the ...
... young men were trying to domicile the English genteel tradition in rural Scotland . The careful formality , the insistence on parliamentary procedure , the pure neoclassic English of the statement - these show an ambition to emulate the ...
Page 296
... young , I'm o'er young , I'm o'er young to marry yet ; I'm o'er young , ' twad be a sin To tak me frae my mammy yet . Hallowmass is come and gane , The nights are lang in winter , Sir ; And you an ' I in ae bed . In trowth , I dare na ...
... young , I'm o'er young , I'm o'er young to marry yet ; I'm o'er young , ' twad be a sin To tak me frae my mammy yet . Hallowmass is come and gane , The nights are lang in winter , Sir ; And you an ' I in ae bed . In trowth , I dare na ...
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