 I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks,...  The human mind, a discourse on its acquirements and history - Page 286by Stephen Watson Fullom - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 pages
...to virtue's side.'" Education. — In his "Confessions" Burns says: "In my infant and boyish days, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 pages
...to virtue's side.'" Education. — In his "Confessions" Burns says: "In my infant and boyish days, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pages
...part of his poetical education must not be passed over. " In my infant and boyish days," he says, " I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1889 - 328 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, witches, kelpies, spunkies, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1889 - 334 pages
...devil. In his autobiographical letter to Dr. Moore, Burns writes — ' In my infant and boyish days I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pages
...lasting influence on the Poet's mind. Burns himself says of her : — In my infant and boyish days, I owed much to an old woman, who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | Robert Burns, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1892 - 322 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | 1893 - 780 pages
...an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles,... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 pages
...a lasting influence on the Poet's mind. Burns himself says of her:— In my infant and boyish days, I owed much to an old woman, who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 300 pages
...influence upon his poetical faculty Burns has himself acknowledged : " In my infant and boyish days I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection... | |
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