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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

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...S STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pen... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One, the Pennsylvan... ... thence, as I find is always the case, to the most ghastly romancing about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national... ...ld be that they should act warily and little for many years to come, until education and habit may make them the more fit. All this (intended for my f... ...y merits. ‘ENGLISH, THE: – a dull people, incapable of compre- hending the Scottish tongue. Their history is so intimately connected with that of Scot... ...he Pi- rate by Cap’n. Marryat. Since this was written ‘The Cook’ is in his nineteenth chapter. Yo-heave ho! R. L. S. Letter: TO THOMAS STEVENSON [CHAL... ...in in French, and French, I suppose, in Latin, which seems to me a capital education. He, Lloyd, is a great bicycler al- ready, and has been long dist...

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