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...it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an excellent English scholar ; and, by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles :" — " But when thou pours" — " There thou shines chief" — " Thou clears the head" — " Thou...

...verbs and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who re5* sided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...

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...it cost the schoolmaster some thrashings, I made an eicellent English scholar ; and, by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles :" — " But when thou pours" — " There thou shines chief" — '' Thou clears the head" — '* Thou...

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...all the education they ever had." Robert was then in his ninth year, and had owed much, he tells us, to " an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...

...all the education they ever had." Robert was then in his ninth year, and had owed much, he tells us, to " an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...

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