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John Howie : Biographia Scoticana

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

John Howie : The Scots Worthies

'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in hopeless confusion, I went over carefully, arranging and repairing them until the book assumed consecutive form. My father was so touched by this act of piety - for he regarded the book as almost a sacred one - that he had it handsomely bound in leather for me: a big tome of a thousand pages. All this passed through my mind; it was poor stuff without a vestige of nourishment, and it did not leave a trace behind.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir      Print: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume

John Howie : The Scots Worthies

'Received Scots Worthies, without notes. However, ‘tis a rotten book, and not worth a rush at best.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

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