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Excerpt from The Life and Works of Robert Burns, as Originally Edited by James Currie, M. D, Vol. 1: To Which Is Prefixed, a Review of the Life of Burns, and of Various Criticisms on His Character and Writings The prevalence of this taste, or ratherpassion for, dancing, among a people so deeply tinctured with the, spirit and doctrines of Calvin, is one of those. Contradictions 'which the philosophic observer so often finds in national character and manners. It is probably to be ascribed to the Scottish.music, which, throughoutall its varie ties, is-so full of sensibility, and which, in its livelier strains, awakes those vivid emotions that find in dancing their. Natural solace and relief. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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