Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Novelists, and Other Distinguished Persons, Volume 4R. Cadell, 1834 - English literature |
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Page 137
... Roxburghshire , and Isabella Scott , his wife , were the parents of Dr Leyden , and still survive to deplore the irreparable loss of a son , the honour alike of his family and country . Their irreproachable life , and simplicity of ...
... Roxburghshire , and Isabella Scott , his wife , were the parents of Dr Leyden , and still survive to deplore the irreparable loss of a son , the honour alike of his family and country . Their irreproachable life , and simplicity of ...
Page 174
... Roxburghshire to bid adieu to his parents , whom he regarded with the most tender filial affection , and from thence he in- tended to have taken his departure for London without returning to Edinburgh . Some accident changed his purpose ...
... Roxburghshire to bid adieu to his parents , whom he regarded with the most tender filial affection , and from thence he in- tended to have taken his departure for London without returning to Edinburgh . Some accident changed his purpose ...
Page 310
... Roxburghshire , for some gallant exploit , which tradition states to have been the slaying of a huge serpent , appealing for the truth of the tale to a very ancient monument , over a door of the parish church , on which there is cer ...
... Roxburghshire , for some gallant exploit , which tradition states to have been the slaying of a huge serpent , appealing for the truth of the tale to a very ancient monument , over a door of the parish church , on which there is cer ...
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