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The contrast , the transition is less striking . From the top of the Calton Hill , the
inhabitants of ' Auld Reekie ' can descry , or fancy they descry , the peaks of Ben
Lomond and the waving outline of Rob Roy's country : we who live at the
southern ...
The contrast , the transition is less striking . From the top of the Calton Hill , the
inhabitants of ' Auld Reekie ' can descry , or fancy they descry , the peaks of Ben
Lomond and the waving outline of Rob Roy's country : we who live at the
southern ...
Сторінка 178
He has no steady principles , no strong passions , nothing original , masculine ,
or striking in thought or expression . There is a feeble , diffuse , showy , Asiatic
redundancy in all his speeches — something vapid , something second - hand in
...
He has no steady principles , no strong passions , nothing original , masculine ,
or striking in thought or expression . There is a feeble , diffuse , showy , Asiatic
redundancy in all his speeches — something vapid , something second - hand in
...
Сторінка 246
personal projects , he has all the air of the most perfect independence , and gains
a character for impartiality and candour , when he is only striking a balance in his
mind between the éclat of differing from a Minister on some ' vantage - ground ...
personal projects , he has all the air of the most perfect independence , and gains
a character for impartiality and candour , when he is only striking a balance in his
mind between the éclat of differing from a Minister on some ' vantage - ground ...
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