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... Playfair and Leslie , 16 and one or two young advocates , who had walked out with them . Then came Robert Morehead , 17 whom you remember at Balliol , a relation and intimate friend of Mr Jeffrey's . He and the celebrated orator ...
... Playfair and Leslie , 16 and one or two young advocates , who had walked out with them . Then came Robert Morehead , 17 whom you remember at Balliol , a relation and intimate friend of Mr Jeffrey's . He and the celebrated orator ...
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... Playfair : in what follows Lockhart seems to be obliquely trying to make amends for the ill - considered attack on Playfair which he had published in Blackwood's Magazine in September 1818 and now regretted . Letter XV of the original ...
... Playfair : in what follows Lockhart seems to be obliquely trying to make amends for the ill - considered attack on Playfair which he had published in Blackwood's Magazine in September 1818 and now regretted . Letter XV of the original ...
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... Playfair and Chalmers . See particularly Letters VII and LXXIII . 137. Mr Playfair : Baron von Lauerwinkel attacked Professor Playfair in his ' Letter to the Reverend Professor Laugner ' in Blackwood's Magazine , vol . iii , September ...
... Playfair and Chalmers . See particularly Letters VII and LXXIII . 137. Mr Playfair : Baron von Lauerwinkel attacked Professor Playfair in his ' Letter to the Reverend Professor Laugner ' in Blackwood's Magazine , vol . iii , September ...
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