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Page 31
... perhaps with a copy of Johnson's Journey at his elbow , the journalist Robert Heron echoed its enthusiasm for the anglicisation of Edinburgh . Surprisingly , perhaps , for he was born the son of a weaver in Kirkcudbright . National ...
... perhaps with a copy of Johnson's Journey at his elbow , the journalist Robert Heron echoed its enthusiasm for the anglicisation of Edinburgh . Surprisingly , perhaps , for he was born the son of a weaver in Kirkcudbright . National ...
Page 68
... perhaps labouring the argu- ment , but it need not end there . Separated from his command in the rain and powder - smoke of Falkirk in January , 1746 , and finding himself alone among the Hanoverian army , Donald MacDonell of Tirnadris ...
... perhaps labouring the argu- ment , but it need not end there . Separated from his command in the rain and powder - smoke of Falkirk in January , 1746 , and finding himself alone among the Hanoverian army , Donald MacDonell of Tirnadris ...
Page 89
... perhaps by the landlord or by a hurriedly departing guest War declared . There was no further entry until 1919 . The road outside the hotel is one of the earliest built in the Highlands , thirty miles from Inverness to Fort Augustus ...
... perhaps by the landlord or by a hurriedly departing guest War declared . There was no further entry until 1919 . The road outside the hotel is one of the earliest built in the Highlands , thirty miles from Inverness to Fort Augustus ...
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