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... minister of Pittenweem , . 206 . CHAPTER XII . Other illustrations of Fife character in the professions - Fife soldiers - Kirkaldy of Grange and the two Leslies — Fife admirals - Alexander Selkirk Fife doctors and judges- Architecture ...
... minister of Pittenweem , . 206 . CHAPTER XII . Other illustrations of Fife character in the professions - Fife soldiers - Kirkaldy of Grange and the two Leslies — Fife admirals - Alexander Selkirk Fife doctors and judges- Architecture ...
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... ministry . He meets Adamnan at Inchkeith , and having asked Adamnan " How he should dispose of his followers , " is told , " Let them inhabit the land of Fife from the hill of the Britons ( Largo Law ? ) to the hill called Okhel " ( the ...
... ministry . He meets Adamnan at Inchkeith , and having asked Adamnan " How he should dispose of his followers , " is told , " Let them inhabit the land of Fife from the hill of the Britons ( Largo Law ? ) to the hill called Okhel " ( the ...
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... ministers of religion were no longer saints or hermits , virgins or martyrs ; they became mitred bishops , abbots , priors , the councillors , sometimes the rulers , of the king and of the nation . Why was it that the chief pastor of ...
... ministers of religion were no longer saints or hermits , virgins or martyrs ; they became mitred bishops , abbots , priors , the councillors , sometimes the rulers , of the king and of the nation . Why was it that the chief pastor of ...
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... minister of Anstruther - is supe- rior to its verse . Two illustrations of the history of Fife find their record in Lyndsay's works , for he was one of the men of letters who was also a man of action . One of these was his acted play ...
... minister of Anstruther - is supe- rior to its verse . Two illustrations of the history of Fife find their record in Lyndsay's works , for he was one of the men of letters who was also a man of action . One of these was his acted play ...
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... minister or confessor , and died after reading on the scaffold a hymn to death by his master Ronsard . His last words were the passionate cry , " Adieu ! most 62 DARNLEY APPEARS . beautiful and most cruel princess of.
... minister or confessor , and died after reading on the scaffold a hymn to death by his master Ronsard . His last words were the passionate cry , " Adieu ! most 62 DARNLEY APPEARS . beautiful and most cruel princess of.
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