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...My pupil, Robert Burns, was then between six and seven years of age ; his preceptor, about eighteen. Robert and his younger brother, Gilbert, had been...reading, dividing words into syllables by rule, spelling with out book, parsing sentences, &c. Robert and Gilbert were generally at the upper end of the class,...

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