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Frae beuks , the wale o ' beuks , I gat some skill , These best can teach what's real gude an'ill ; Ne'er grudge ilk year to ware some stanes o ' cheese , To gain these silent friends that ever please . Gent . Shepherd .
Frae beuks , the wale o ' beuks , I gat some skill , These best can teach what's real gude an'ill ; Ne'er grudge ilk year to ware some stanes o ' cheese , To gain these silent friends that ever please . Gent . Shepherd .
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The First Sang o ' Anacreon . pleasure him I took out a lowse leaf frae the tap o ' a bundle in his kist . I daredna to leuk mysel what it was for the han ' that wrote it is cauld in the yirth . Mr. Wilson said it wad be necessar for ...
The First Sang o ' Anacreon . pleasure him I took out a lowse leaf frae the tap o ' a bundle in his kist . I daredna to leuk mysel what it was for the han ' that wrote it is cauld in the yirth . Mr. Wilson said it wad be necessar for ...
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... his warl'ly thochts an ' purposes out o ' head for the time bein ' , is't no a scandal to the haliness o ' the place , an'a temptation to mislead us frae the devoot feelin ' o ' the day to see thae things there at siccan a time ?
... his warl'ly thochts an ' purposes out o ' head for the time bein ' , is't no a scandal to the haliness o ' the place , an'a temptation to mislead us frae the devoot feelin ' o ' the day to see thae things there at siccan a time ?
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I was aye thinkin ' he was wan'erin ' frae his point - an ' deed it was mysel that was awa ' amang John Walker's potatoes or rinnin ' after the poacher far owre the Strone Hill . Now as maistly ilka man body that cam ' in at the kirk ...
I was aye thinkin ' he was wan'erin ' frae his point - an ' deed it was mysel that was awa ' amang John Walker's potatoes or rinnin ' after the poacher far owre the Strone Hill . Now as maistly ilka man body that cam ' in at the kirk ...
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-Weel do ye ken , it's sma ' an ' sair , sair won , Nae rives like yours frae ilka plunder'd town . An ' this is aye the gate : my han's do far The greatest deeds o ' this lang bluidy war : But whan the gear's divided ye get maist ...
-Weel do ye ken , it's sma ' an ' sair , sair won , Nae rives like yours frae ilka plunder'd town . An ' this is aye the gate : my han's do far The greatest deeds o ' this lang bluidy war : But whan the gear's divided ye get maist ...
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Page 323 - The bishop, in reply, with great wit and calmness, exposed this rude attack, concluding thus: "Since the noble lord hath discovered in our manners such a similitude, I am well content to be compared to the prophet Balaam ; but, my lords, I am at a loss how to make out the other part of the parallel: I am sure that I have been reproved by nobody but his lordship.
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Page 322 - Lords, said, among other things, 'that he prophesied last winter this bill would be attempted in the present session, and he was sorry to find that he had proved a true prophet.