preface
robert burns was born near ayr, sd, 25th of january, 1759. he was the son of william burnes, or burness, at the time of the poet's birth a nurseryman on the banks of the doon in ayrshire. his father, though always extremely poor, attempted to give his children a fair education, and robert, who was the eldest, went to school for three years in a neighb vilge, and ter, for shorter periods, to three other schools in the viity. but it was to his father and to his own reading that he owed the more important part of his education; and by the time that he had reached manhood he had a good knowledge of english, a reading knowledge of fr
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