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... seem to have resided at all three impartially , and at the last their son may have been born . If this were so , it is easy to understand how tradition , anxious for some visible memorial of a famous man in the town bearing his name ...
... seem to have resided at all three impartially , and at the last their son may have been born . If this were so , it is easy to understand how tradition , anxious for some visible memorial of a famous man in the town bearing his name ...
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... seems to have possessed his full share of the turbulent spirit which marked the Scottish aris- tocracy then and for long after an era of milder manners had dawned upon the South . When nearly fifty years old he was engaged in a ...
... seems to have possessed his full share of the turbulent spirit which marked the Scottish aris- tocracy then and for long after an era of milder manners had dawned upon the South . When nearly fifty years old he was engaged in a ...
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... seem to have been lost after her disappearance from her sister's house in 1631 . In his twelfth year Lord Graham was sent to study at Glasgow under the charge of a tutor , William Forrett . Master Forrett was most scrupulous in keep ...
... seem to have been lost after her disappearance from her sister's house in 1631 . In his twelfth year Lord Graham was sent to study at Glasgow under the charge of a tutor , William Forrett . Master Forrett was most scrupulous in keep ...
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... seems to have lived here with her brother . One pleasant fact at least stands out clear from these dim memories ; there was a warm affection and regard between tutor and pupil . Years afterwards , when Montrose had burned his boats by ...
... seems to have lived here with her brother . One pleasant fact at least stands out clear from these dim memories ; there was a warm affection and regard between tutor and pupil . Years afterwards , when Montrose had burned his boats by ...
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... seems to have been much the same as that of any young man of rank and fortune to - day at Christ Church or Trinity . He mixed freely in all the diversions of the place and time , hunted , hawked , and shot , played golf on the links of ...
... seems to have been much the same as that of any young man of rank and fortune to - day at Christ Church or Trinity . He mixed freely in all the diversions of the place and time , hunted , hawked , and shot , played golf on the links of ...
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