Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication. |
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... also , the ten commandments , and the ten tribes of Israel which were cut off for their wickedness . When I look upon the nine , it puts me in mind of the nine Hierarchies , the nine Muses and the nine Noble Orders amongst men .
... also , the ten commandments , and the ten tribes of Israel which were cut off for their wickedness . When I look upon the nine , it puts me in mind of the nine Hierarchies , the nine Muses and the nine Noble Orders amongst men .
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Virtue and Vice ; then my Lord , when I look upon the ace , it puts me in mind , I've only one God to adore and serve , one Faith to believe , one Truth to practise , one Baptism to cleanse me from original sin , and one only to serve ...
Virtue and Vice ; then my Lord , when I look upon the ace , it puts me in mind , I've only one God to adore and serve , one Faith to believe , one Truth to practise , one Baptism to cleanse me from original sin , and one only to serve ...
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Be wiser then , and do what's right , And mind your business wi ' might , Lest unexpected gloomy night Shou'd you surround , And mingle a ' your pleasure bright . Wi ' grief profound . And bonny lasses mind this rhyme , As true as three ...
Be wiser then , and do what's right , And mind your business wi ' might , Lest unexpected gloomy night Shou'd you surround , And mingle a ' your pleasure bright . Wi ' grief profound . And bonny lasses mind this rhyme , As true as three ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Trades and Occupations | 130 |
Copyright | |
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Allan appear auld began body boys called carried century chap chapbooks chapman clothes collection coming cries death door drink East Lothian Edinburgh English entered fair father fell four friends Gaelic give Glasgow Haggart hand head hear heard heart Jack James John keep King land lass leave live look Maggy means mind morning never night o'er pass person play poem poor popular present printed published reached remained Robertson round Saltmarket Scotland Scots Scottish shillings ship side soldiers song soon sure taken tell There's thing thought till took town true turn Wallace weather whole wife wind woman wonderful young
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| Title | Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850 |
| Author | Edward J. Cowan |
| Editors | Edward J. Cowan, Michael Paterson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | John Donald, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 1904607519, 9781904607519 |
| Length | 438 pages |
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