 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. " At those years I was by no means a favourite <* with any body. I was a good deal noted for a " retentive memory, a...something " in my disposition, and an enthusiastic ideot " piety. — I say ideot piety, because I was then " but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years I was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn...an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs and particles. In my infant and boyish... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pages
...period of his life, in a. letter to Dr. Moore, he says, ' I was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn,...sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic ideot -piety .' When we reflect that at the time of writing this letter (1787) poor Burns had already... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1813 - 422 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years I was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn...some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar; _ and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...himself, in his letter to Dr. Moore, " At these years I was by no means a favorite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn...disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot piety ; I say, ideot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the school master some thrashings, 1 made... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 714 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years I was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn...sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic ideot piety. — I say idcot piety, because 1 was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1819 - 388 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years I was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn...an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and... | |
 | 1819 - 364 pages
...with the assistance of his generous master, my father ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years I was by no means a favourite with any body....a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy something in uiy disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot * piety. I say idiot piety, because I was then but a•... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1820 - 484 pages
...ventured on a small farm on his estate. At those years, 1 was by no means a favorite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn...sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic ideot* piety. — I say ideot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster... | |
 | 1824 - 312 pages
...venturec on a small farm on his estate. A these years I was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn...sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic idtot piety. — I sa; ideot piety, because I was bu then a child. Though it cost th chool-master some... | |
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I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy something in my disposition, and an enthusiastic idiot piety. I say idiot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English... 
