 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 374 pages
...you with it ; but after all my diligence I could make it no sooner nor better. For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birth-day inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 pages
...you with it ; but after all my diligence, I could make it no sooner nor better.2 For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas it Kcmpis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1852 - 336 pages
...you with it; but after all my diligence, I could make it no sooner nor better. 2 For my own oilairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas i Kempis or John Bunyan; and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 342 pages
...you with it; but after all my diligence, I could make it no sooner nor better/* For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas 3, Kempis or John Bunyan; and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...you with it ; but after all my diligence I could make it no sooner nor better. For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birth-day inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Buny:in ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birth-day inserted among the wonder ml events, in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the black Monday, and the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...you with it ; but after all my diligence, I could make it no sooner nor better.1 For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kcmpis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
...you with it ; but after all my diligence, I could make it no sooner nor better. For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas & Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expeet henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful events in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 pages
...in the blaze of his Edinburgh fame, we find Burns writing to Gavin Hamilton in these terms : — " I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas à Kempis or John Bunyan, and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inscribed among the wonderful... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 pages
...veiled in a little scornful exaggeration. In writing to Mr. Hamilton, he says : " For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis, or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birthday inserted among the wonderful... | |
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For my own affairs, I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas a Kempis or John Bunyan ; and you may expect henceforth to see my birth-day inserted among the wonderful events, in the Poor Robin's and Aberdeen Almanacks, along with the Black Monday,... 
