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... Hebrides Monasticism As we walked in the cloisters , there was a solemn echo , while he talked loudly of a proper retirement from the world . Mr. Nairne said , he had an inclination to retire . I called Dr. Johnson's attention to this ...
... Hebrides Monasticism As we walked in the cloisters , there was a solemn echo , while he talked loudly of a proper retirement from the world . Mr. Nairne said , he had an inclination to retire . I called Dr. Johnson's attention to this ...
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... Hebrides Unpliability ' Beauclerk and I , and Langton , and Lady Sydney Beau- clerk , mother to our friend , were one day driving in a coach by Cuper's Gardens , which were then unoccupied . I , in sport , proposed that Beauclerk and ...
... Hebrides Unpliability ' Beauclerk and I , and Langton , and Lady Sydney Beau- clerk , mother to our friend , were one day driving in a coach by Cuper's Gardens , which were then unoccupied . I , in sport , proposed that Beauclerk and ...
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... Hebrides St. Andrews At an hour somewhat late we came to St. Andrews , a city once archiepiscopal ; where that university still subsists in which philosophy was formerly taught by Buchanan , whose name has as fair a claim to immortality ...
... Hebrides St. Andrews At an hour somewhat late we came to St. Andrews , a city once archiepiscopal ; where that university still subsists in which philosophy was formerly taught by Buchanan , whose name has as fair a claim to immortality ...
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Harry Hervey | 9 |
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