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No nation is more abundant than Scotland in local bards that sing of streams & valleys & heathery hills

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Poetry, the noble brotherhood who speak in tones of harmony, grandeur & pathos.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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James Grant Wilson

James Grant Wilson
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Born: April 28, 1832
Died: February 1, 1914 (aged 81)
Bio: James Grant Wilson was an American editor, author, bookseller and publisher, who founded the Chicago Record in 1857, the first literary paper in that region.
Known for:
  1. Bryant And His Friends (1886)
  2. The Life And Letters Of Fitz Greene Halleck (1869)
  3. Thackeray in the United States (1901)
  4. Presidents of the United States 1789-1914 (1894)

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