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... culture in his own day accounts for his split personality . The latter half of the eighteenth century was not a propitious time for a Scottish poet , and Burns's achievement becomes all the greater when one realizes the conditions ...
... culture in his own day accounts for his split personality . The latter half of the eighteenth century was not a propitious time for a Scottish poet , and Burns's achievement becomes all the greater when one realizes the conditions ...
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... culture was threatened by a series of events beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth century . The Reformation came to Scotland more violently than it came to England , and pre- cipitated more than a century of bitter controversy ...
... culture was threatened by a series of events beginning in the latter part of the sixteenth century . The Reformation came to Scotland more violently than it came to England , and pre- cipitated more than a century of bitter controversy ...
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... culture . It was not his fault that he was caught in the midst of these cross - currents and sometimes carried off his true course . The remarkable fact is that he never left his true course for long , and when he was on it he displayed ...
... culture . It was not his fault that he was caught in the midst of these cross - currents and sometimes carried off his true course . The remarkable fact is that he never left his true course for long , and when he was on it he displayed ...
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