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Page 57
... already , no doubt , roaming the countryside , with every sense alert . It is questionable if Adam Smith , at Kirkcaldy , had begun to reflect upon the wealth of nations . He was only eight , but , through being kidnapped by gipsies ...
... already , no doubt , roaming the countryside , with every sense alert . It is questionable if Adam Smith , at Kirkcaldy , had begun to reflect upon the wealth of nations . He was only eight , but , through being kidnapped by gipsies ...
Page 250
... already possessed , is patently untrue . He was the means of softening rather than of hardening the tenets to which Cowper , with his obstinate vein of logic , had clung . And , where the more mundane aspects of friendship were ...
... already possessed , is patently untrue . He was the means of softening rather than of hardening the tenets to which Cowper , with his obstinate vein of logic , had clung . And , where the more mundane aspects of friendship were ...
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... already made that suggestion superfluous . Most of the letters of this period , ranging over a wide variety of topics , are cheerful , and often merry . But melancholy continues to break in at intervals , and the writer's despairing ...
... already made that suggestion superfluous . Most of the letters of this period , ranging over a wide variety of topics , are cheerful , and often merry . But melancholy continues to break in at intervals , and the writer's despairing ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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