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... William Burnes had not come south from Kincardine in any spirit of idle adventure. He had come with reluctance, after his own father's farming prospects had been ruined by the uncertainties produced by the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 ...
... William Burnes had not come south from Kincardine in any spirit of idle adventure. He had come with reluctance, after his own father's farming prospects had been ruined by the uncertainties produced by the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 ...
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... William Burnes, in conjunction with some other heads of families, engaged John Murdoch in his stead." Murdoch was a priggish and pedantic young man of eighteen, who was boarded in turns by William Burnes and his fellow farmers while he ...
... William Burnes, in conjunction with some other heads of families, engaged John Murdoch in his stead." Murdoch was a priggish and pedantic young man of eighteen, who was boarded in turns by William Burnes and his fellow farmers while he ...
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... William ("During the whole of the time we lived in the farm of Lochlea," wrote Gilbert, "he [William Burnes] allowed my brother and me such wages for our labour as he gave to other labourers") and so they were preferred creditors. This ...
... William ("During the whole of the time we lived in the farm of Lochlea," wrote Gilbert, "he [William Burnes] allowed my brother and me such wages for our labour as he gave to other labourers") and so they were preferred creditors. This ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
Copyright | |
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