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The first portion of the volume contains nearly two hundred pages of letters addressed by Burns to various individuals , written in various tones of feeling and modes of mind , in some instances exhibiting all the force of the writer's ...
The first portion of the volume contains nearly two hundred pages of letters addressed by Burns to various individuals , written in various tones of feeling and modes of mind , in some instances exhibiting all the force of the writer's ...
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In such language did this powerful but untamed mind express the irritation of prolonged expectation and disappointed hope , which slight reflection might have pointed out as the common fate of mortality .
In such language did this powerful but untamed mind express the irritation of prolonged expectation and disappointed hope , which slight reflection might have pointed out as the common fate of mortality .
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Contempt , so far from being favourable to the improvement of the mind , is perhaps directly the reverse : it increases so rapidly , that it soon degenerates into a passion for condemnation : the senise of what is good , withers away ...
Contempt , so far from being favourable to the improvement of the mind , is perhaps directly the reverse : it increases so rapidly , that it soon degenerates into a passion for condemnation : the senise of what is good , withers away ...
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Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Quarterly review Volume 1 of The Quarterly Review |
| Contributor | Aborigines' Friends' Association (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Publisher | Aborigines' Friends' Association, 1940 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Jan 2008 |
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