Excerpt: ...their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little, dirty anthill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride.' Such experiences added fuel to the divine purpose in his mind to free a large portion of Pg 109 his fellow-countrymen from the bonds that had been bound on their bodies and souls by long years of class presumption and heartless tyranny, which, till Burns attacked them, had grown more unjust ...
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Excerpt: ...their impertinent wives, and clouterly brats, as the lordly bull does on the little, dirty anthill, whose puny inhabitants he crushes in the carelessness of his ramble, or tosses in the air in the wantonness of his pride.' Such experiences added fuel to the divine purpose in his mind to free a large portion of Pg 109 his fellow-countrymen from the bonds that had been bound on their bodies and souls by long years of class presumption and heartless tyranny, which, till Burns attacked them, had grown more unjust and contemptuous as generation succeeded generation. Burns's reverence for real manhood, a basic principle of true democratic spirit, is shown in the closing verse of his 'Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson' Go to your sculptured tombs, ye Great, In a' the tinsel trash o' state! But by thy honest turf I'll wait, Thou man of worth! And weep the ae best fellow's fate E'er lay in earth. To John Francis Erskine he wrote, 1793: 'Burns was a poor man from birth and an exciseman from necessity; but
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