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McIntyre's "A Life"

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• (p. 1) Born in same year as William Pitt, Schiller and Mary Wollstoncraft.
• (p. 1) e.g. people

Growing up

• (p. 13) Agnes and William Burns.
• (p. 18) by R. Burn: "Kissing is the key o' love / An' clapping is the lock, / An' making o's the best thing / That ere a young thing got -"

Early manhood

• (p. 40-41) Bears an illegitimate girl, by Elizabeth Paton.

Love and poesy

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