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... farm while bitterly resenting the fact that others whom he met in town and country were born to higher destinies than his . " I formed many connections , ' he wrote later , looking back on his youth , ' with younkers who possessed ...
... farm while bitterly resenting the fact that others whom he met in town and country were born to higher destinies than his . " I formed many connections , ' he wrote later , looking back on his youth , ' with younkers who possessed ...
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... farm , Elizabeth Paton , who bore his first illegitimate child , and on the child's birth he welcomed it with a lively poem which was part swagger and part the expression of genuine paternal affection and delight : His Thou's welcome ...
... farm , Elizabeth Paton , who bore his first illegitimate child , and on the child's birth he welcomed it with a lively poem which was part swagger and part the expression of genuine paternal affection and delight : His Thou's welcome ...
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... farm in Ellisland , Dumfriesshire , leased to him by an admirer who was nevertheless a shrewd landlord . At ... farming at Ellisland difficult , though he was 1 Wealth . helped by Jean Armour , with whom he had been 28 BURNS.
... farm in Ellisland , Dumfriesshire , leased to him by an admirer who was nevertheless a shrewd landlord . At ... farming at Ellisland difficult , though he was 1 Wealth . helped by Jean Armour , with whom he had been 28 BURNS.
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