James WattDoubleday, Page, 1913 - 241 pages |
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... mind and heart , and not less distinguished " for her sound sense and good manners than for her " cheerful temper and excellent housewifery . " Her likeness is thus drawn , and all that we have read elsewhere concerning her confirms the ...
... mind and heart , and not less distinguished " for her sound sense and good manners than for her " cheerful temper and excellent housewifery . " Her likeness is thus drawn , and all that we have read elsewhere concerning her confirms the ...
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... mind was absorbing , though its acquisitions did not count in the school records . Much is revealed of his musings and inward development in the account of a visit which he paid to his grandmother Muirhead in Glasgow , when it was ...
... mind was absorbing , though its acquisitions did not count in the school records . Much is revealed of his musings and inward development in the account of a visit which he paid to his grandmother Muirhead in Glasgow , when it was ...
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... mind was stored with the legends of his country , its romance and poetry , and , strong Covenanters as were the Watts for generations , tales of the Martyrs were not wanting . The heather was on fire within Jamie's breast . But where ...
... mind was stored with the legends of his country , its romance and poetry , and , strong Covenanters as were the Watts for generations , tales of the Martyrs were not wanting . The heather was on fire within Jamie's breast . But where ...
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... mind was stored with more entrancing classics learned at his mother's knee : his heroes were of nobler mould than the Greek demigods , and the story of his own romantic land more fruitful than that of any other of the past . Busy ...
... mind was stored with more entrancing classics learned at his mother's knee : his heroes were of nobler mould than the Greek demigods , and the story of his own romantic land more fruitful than that of any other of the past . Busy ...
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... mind that jewel we owe to Plato , which surely ranks as one of the most precious of all our treasures : " We should lure ourselves as with " enchantments , for the hope is great and the " reward is noble . " So with this enchanting ...
... mind that jewel we owe to Plato , which surely ranks as one of the most precious of all our treasures : " We should lure ourselves as with " enchantments , for the hope is great and the " reward is noble . " So with this enchanting ...
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