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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 20
1823 - 1817 pages
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The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His ...

Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pages
...bag-pipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the flood-gates oflife shut in eternal rest. " Polemical divinity about this time was putting the country half-mad...
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Advertisement ; Life of Burns ; Glossary ; Preface to the first edition ...

Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 pages
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there...ambitious of shining in conversation parties on Sundays, be- • tween sermons, at funerals, &c. used, a few years afterwards, to puzzle Calvinism with so much...
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The Works of Robert Burns: With His Life, Volume 1

Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 pages
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." The education of Burns was not over when the school-doors were shut. The peasantry of Scotland turn...
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The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 9

1836 - 694 pages
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." The effects of the large Destructiveness of Burns were very conspicuous. From this, and Self Esteem,...
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Practical Phrenology

Silas Jones - 1836 - 348 pages
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.' "The effects of the large Destructiveness of Burns were very conspicuous. From this, and Self-esteem,...
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The Manual of Peace, Embracing I, Evils and Remedies of War, II, Suggestions ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1836 - 470 pages
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there,...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." The unfortunate Theobald Wolf Tone, speaking of his practice in early life of attending the military...
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The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life

Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pages
...and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a tide of Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." Murdoch continued his instructions until the family had been about two years at Mount Oliphant —...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 20

1847 - 608 pages
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there...till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest." Shakspeare has been the universal favorite of the sons of genius; but the enthusiasm of one humble...
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The Works of Robert Burns

Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pages
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." The education of Burns was not over when the school-doors were shut. The peasantry of Scotland turn...
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The Manual of Peace: Exhibiting the Evils and Remedies of War

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1842 - 226 pages
...bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there...till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest." The unfortunate Theobald Wolf Tone, speaking of his practice, in early life, of attending the military...
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