My Windows on the Street of the World, Volume 1J.M. Dent & sons, limited, 1923 - 452 pages |
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... became ardent partisans . The evangelical point of view fell into the background although there were evangelicals like MacCheyne and the Bonars in the Free Church who expressed that point of view fully . In the Established Church ...
... became ardent partisans . The evangelical point of view fell into the background although there were evangelicals like MacCheyne and the Bonars in the Free Church who expressed that point of view fully . In the Established Church ...
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... became universal in the Lowlands , and even penetrated into the Highlands of Scotland . It was the official language , and the language of gentry and common people alike , until the end of the eighteenth century , and even in the ...
... became universal in the Lowlands , and even penetrated into the Highlands of Scotland . It was the official language , and the language of gentry and common people alike , until the end of the eighteenth century , and even in the ...
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... became a journalist , or perhaps a writer for the magazines . He made infrequent visits to his father . I recall him as he was more than sixty years ago — a picturesque figure in loose 1 Pronounced " wumman . " 2 " Yes , I know , he is ...
... became a journalist , or perhaps a writer for the magazines . He made infrequent visits to his father . I recall him as he was more than sixty years ago — a picturesque figure in loose 1 Pronounced " wumman . " 2 " Yes , I know , he is ...
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... became easy . In earlier years she had gone more or less frequently to Aberdeen - driving all the way ( forty miles ) in her own " gig . " Shortly after the railway came within about fourteen miles of her farm she decided to make an ...
... became easy . In earlier years she had gone more or less frequently to Aberdeen - driving all the way ( forty miles ) in her own " gig . " Shortly after the railway came within about fourteen miles of her farm she decided to make an ...
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... became a farmer rather than a miner ; but to the village folk , everyone who went to Australia went for gold . One day there arrived at the village , for Mrs. Craik , a heavy box from Australia . Immediately the rumour ran that Samuel ...
... became a farmer rather than a miner ; but to the village folk , everyone who went to Australia went for gold . One day there arrived at the village , for Mrs. Craik , a heavy box from Australia . Immediately the rumour ran that Samuel ...
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