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Page 194 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Life of Robert Burns Bohn's standard library The Library of Standard Biographies |
| Author | John Gibson Lockhart |
| Editor | William Scott Douglas |
| Publisher | G. Bell and Sons, 1905 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 349 pages |
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