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... political party in England of the " Revolution Whigs " whose cry was " Peace , Protestantism , and Plenty , " the pattern of Scottish political life changed rapidly . One section of the Scottish Whigs joined the Jacobites to oppose the ...
... political party in England of the " Revolution Whigs " whose cry was " Peace , Protestantism , and Plenty , " the pattern of Scottish political life changed rapidly . One section of the Scottish Whigs joined the Jacobites to oppose the ...
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... political activities to restore their faith in their own national genius ; for such a diagnosis will not explain the profound division between the critical and the creative activities of eighteenth - century Scot- land . But it does ...
... political activities to restore their faith in their own national genius ; for such a diagnosis will not explain the profound division between the critical and the creative activities of eighteenth - century Scot- land . But it does ...
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... political activities to restore their faith in their own national genius ; for such a diagnosis will not explain the profound division between the critical and the creative activities of eighteenth - century Scot- land . But it does ...
... political activities to restore their faith in their own national genius ; for such a diagnosis will not explain the profound division between the critical and the creative activities of eighteenth - century Scot- land . But it does ...
Contents
Preface V | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
Copyright | |
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