The portrait of a Christian gentleman, a memoir of P. F. TytlerJ. Murray, 1859 - 356 pages |
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... present . It seemed however that I should both be rendering an useful service to society , and paying a not ungraceful tribute to the memory of the man I loved , if I attempted to weave into a connected story the materials which his ...
... present . It seemed however that I should both be rendering an useful service to society , and paying a not ungraceful tribute to the memory of the man I loved , if I attempted to weave into a connected story the materials which his ...
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... present Memoir , until attention has been invited to the life and character of his two im- mediate progenitors , his grandfather and his father . Genius has proved hereditary in this family for more than three generations , * and has ...
... present Memoir , until attention has been invited to the life and character of his two im- mediate progenitors , his grandfather and his father . Genius has proved hereditary in this family for more than three generations , * and has ...
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... present at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 29th day of April , 1784 , when Dr. Carlisle read Collins ' ode on the genius of the High- lands ; at which time he could not help contemplating , with a pleasing astonishment , the ...
... present at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 29th day of April , 1784 , when Dr. Carlisle read Collins ' ode on the genius of the High- lands ; at which time he could not help contemplating , with a pleasing astonishment , the ...
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... present at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 29th day of April , 1784 , when Dr. Carlisle read Collins ' ode on the genius of the High- lands ; at which time he could not help contemplating , with a pleasing astonishment , the ...
... present at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 29th day of April , 1784 , when Dr. Carlisle read Collins ' ode on the genius of the High- lands ; at which time he could not help contemplating , with a pleasing astonishment , the ...
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... present at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 29th day of April , 1784 , when Dr. Carlisle read Collins ' ode on the genius of the High- lands ; at which time he could not help contemplating , with a pleasing astonishment , the ...
... present at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the 29th day of April , 1784 , when Dr. Carlisle read Collins ' ode on the genius of the High- lands ; at which time he could not help contemplating , with a pleasing astonishment , the ...
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