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... respect and gratitude , though not with the affection he felt for his own mother , who was a woman of a supe- rior order , and who probably did something in his infancy to elevate his mind . As to his father , if he was illiterate as he ...
... respect and gratitude , though not with the affection he felt for his own mother , who was a woman of a supe- rior order , and who probably did something in his infancy to elevate his mind . As to his father , if he was illiterate as he ...
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... in poeti- cal expression , Burns was as decidedly superior to . Wilson , as Wilson was in moral respects to him . It must be said , to the praise of Wilson , 1 that he never acquired those habits of dissipation , into ALEXANDER WILSON . 15.
... in poeti- cal expression , Burns was as decidedly superior to . Wilson , as Wilson was in moral respects to him . It must be said , to the praise of Wilson , 1 that he never acquired those habits of dissipation , into ALEXANDER WILSON . 15.
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... respect of all around him , and when he died , left the enviable memory of a life , full of difficult and depressing circumstances , but un- stained by the least excess . When Wilson , in his youth , sighed for success like that of ...
... respect of all around him , and when he died , left the enviable memory of a life , full of difficult and depressing circumstances , but un- stained by the least excess . When Wilson , in his youth , sighed for success like that of ...
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... respect and favor . At this time , in 1791 , he recited in public two other poems , and published the " Laurel Dispu- ted " ; but his success , though it seems to have been sufficient to satisfy his ambition , brought him no permanent ...
... respect and favor . At this time , in 1791 , he recited in public two other poems , and published the " Laurel Dispu- ted " ; but his success , though it seems to have been sufficient to satisfy his ambition , brought him no permanent ...
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... respect to Burns , with which Cromek has charged him . He tells his nephew , that if Robin , when the mice nib- bled his corn , said , " I'll get a blessin with the lave , And never miss ' t , " his nephew , whose corn had been expended ...
... respect to Burns , with which Cromek has charged him . He tells his nephew , that if Robin , when the mice nib- bled his corn , said , " I'll get a blessin with the lave , And never miss ' t , " his nephew , whose corn had been expended ...
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Page 56 - I set about drawing it that same evening; and all the while the pantings of its little heart showed it to be in the most extreme agonies of fear. I had intended to kill it, in order to fix it in the claws of a stuffed owl ; but, happening to spill a few drops of water near where it was tied, it lapped it up with such eagerness, and looked...
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Page 296 - Notwithstanding the eternal allseeing God did prevent him, and by a strange meanes. For Pocahontas, his dearest Jewell and daughter, in that darke night came through the irksome woods, and told our Captaine great cheare should be sent us by and by : but Powhatan and all the...
Page 176 - He was desirous of sending a communication to the commander of the garrison, but found no one bold enough to undertake so perilous an enterprise. Smith then communicated to him a plan of telegraphic intercourse, which he had before made known to Lord Eberspaught, anticipating that the chances of war would give rise to an emergency, in which a knowledge of it might be highly useful. By Kissell's order, Smith was conveyed at night to a mountain seven miles distant from the town, and communicated with...