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... spirit of inquiry by the charm too deep ever to become old - fashioned , -in the beginning God made him . To the life of John Veitch attaches a subtle attraction , though no stirring scenes break in upon the picture of it , and many of ...
... spirit of inquiry by the charm too deep ever to become old - fashioned , -in the beginning God made him . To the life of John Veitch attaches a subtle attraction , though no stirring scenes break in upon the picture of it , and many of ...
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... spirit of domination , and blind both sides to common qualities , in an unfortunate degree . Mr Smith , to whom we owe a kind letter of reminiscence , himself remembers how , when he started his Adventure school in Peebles , one of the ...
... spirit of domination , and blind both sides to common qualities , in an unfortunate degree . Mr Smith , to whom we owe a kind letter of reminiscence , himself remembers how , when he started his Adventure school in Peebles , one of the ...
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... spirit - enjoyment of merry doings , of boyish escapade , and of anything that savoured of adventure . Often in after - years he would exclaim with half - humorous regret , that next to the life 16 MEMOIR OF JOHN VEITCH .
... spirit - enjoyment of merry doings , of boyish escapade , and of anything that savoured of adventure . Often in after - years he would exclaim with half - humorous regret , that next to the life 16 MEMOIR OF JOHN VEITCH .
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... spirit of his own country , which teems with stories of alluring kinds , -tales of second - sight , of visions of beautiful women ; traditions of curse and revenge and treachery ; centuries of family feud . His natural eloquence and ...
... spirit of his own country , which teems with stories of alluring kinds , -tales of second - sight , of visions of beautiful women ; traditions of curse and revenge and treachery ; centuries of family feud . His natural eloquence and ...
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... spirits who cared most , with himself , to wander the heights and burns , to dare imaginary terrors , and brave the secret woods and awful gamekeepers , for the right kind of " shinty " sticks for school . It is a quaint picture that we ...
... spirits who cared most , with himself , to wander the heights and burns , to dare imaginary terrors , and brave the secret woods and awful gamekeepers , for the right kind of " shinty " sticks for school . It is a quaint picture that we ...
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