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talents ; but his mother was not only intimate with Allan Ramsay , Blacklock ,
Beattie , Burns , and other eminent men , but was herself , says one authority , “ a
poetess of taste and genius ; " this , however , has been denied , though it seems
to ...
talents ; but his mother was not only intimate with Allan Ramsay , Blacklock ,
Beattie , Burns , and other eminent men , but was herself , says one authority , “ a
poetess of taste and genius ; " this , however , has been denied , though it seems
to ...
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Though unsuccessful in music , he seems to have discovered a taste for drawing
, being very fond of copying landscapes from nature . We are not told that his
progress was very great . Local circumstances seem to have had considerable ...
Though unsuccessful in music , he seems to have discovered a taste for drawing
, being very fond of copying landscapes from nature . We are not told that his
progress was very great . Local circumstances seem to have had considerable ...
Page 187
... a fall he received a short time before , in going too hastily from his instrument to
the clock , when observing the sun's meridian altitude . 6 , 1638. JAMES
GREGORY born . He was a man of an acute and penetrating genius , His temper
seems ...
... a fall he received a short time before , in going too hastily from his instrument to
the clock , when observing the sun's meridian altitude . 6 , 1638. JAMES
GREGORY born . He was a man of an acute and penetrating genius , His temper
seems ...
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