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The situation suited him, as the houses of nearly all his friends were within a circle of a few hundred yards. For description see Life, vol. v. pp. 321, 333-4, etc. See below, March 12. Burns's Dedication to Gavin Hamilton "May ne'er misfortune's gowling bark Howl through the dwelling o' the Clerk." "O born to arms! O worth in youth approved, O soft humanity in age beloved!"
See Life throughout, more particularly vol. i. pp. 279-80, 333-4, 338-9; ii. pp. 103-4; iv. pp. 12, 166, 369; v. p. 174; vi. p. 393; vii. pp. 1, 5, 6, 70-74. Skene's account of the destruction of the letters from Scott to Erskine. Patrick Brydone, author of A Tour through Sicily and Malta, 2 vols. 8vo, 1773. Gilbert, Earl of Minto, died in June 1814.
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