...wild sailor-lad whose habits were loose and irregular. "He was," says Burns, "the only man I ever knew who was a greater fool than myself, where woman was the presiding star; but he spoke of lawless love with levity, which hitherto I had regarded with horror. 'Here his friendship...

...wild sailor-lad whose habits were loose and irregular. "He was," says Burns, "the only man I ever knew who was a greater fool than myself, where woman was the presiding star; but he spoke of lawless love with levity, which hitherto I had regarded with Horror. 'Here Ms friendship...

...manly virtue. I loved and admired him to a degree of enthusiasm, and of course strove to imitate him. He was the only man I ever saw who was a greater fool than myself where a woman was the presiding star ; but he spoke of illicit love with the levity of a sailor, which hitherto...

...hitherto restrained him." One of these was a sailor-lad who was, says Robert, " the only man I ever knew who was a greater fool than myself, where woman was the presiding star; but he spoke of lawless love with levity, which hitherto I had regarded with horror. Here his friendship...

...worship.1 " His mind was," he says, " fraught with independence, magnanimity, and every manly virtue. He was the only man I ever saw who was a greater fool than myself when Woman was the presiding star. I loved and admired him to a degree of enthusiasm, and of course...

...pupil owns, ' the pride before ' ; but Brown 'taught it to flow in proper channels.' Withal, Brown ' was the only man I ever saw who was a greater fool than myself when Woman was the presiding star.' Brown, however, was a practical amorist ; and he ' spoke of a certain...

...the wonderful fascination of a certain wild sailorlad of these parts — " the only man I ever knew who was a greater fool than myself, where woman was the presiding star, but he spoke of lawless love with levity, which hitherto I had regarded with horror. Here his friendship...

...him. In some measure I succeeded: I had the pride before, but he taught it to flow in proper channels. His knowledge of the world was vastly superior to...man I ever saw who was a greater fool than myself when woman was the presiding star; but he spoke of a certain fashionable failing with levity, which...

...dominating personality. Burns tells us that he admired him and strove to imitate him. Burns goes on: 'He was the only man I ever saw who was a greater fool than myself when Woman was the guiding star ... He spoke of a certain fashionable failing with levity, which hitherto...

...before, but he taught it to flow in proper channels. His knowledge of the world was vaftly fuperior to mine, and I was all attention to learn. He was the only man I ever faw who was a greater fool than myfelf, where woman was the prefiding ftar ; but he Tpoke of illicit...