“If, in my song or in my saying, there appears more of egotism than enough, how can I avoid it and speak at all?”
“If, in my song or in my saying, there appears more of egotism than enough, how can I avoid it and speak at all?”
c. December 1798–29 February 1848
William Thom was born in Aberdeen, probably in December 1798, though sources have variously placed his birth in 1798, 1799, or 1800. The uncertainty is not trivial: it reflects the precarious position from which he emerged, a position in which the lives of poor urban families were not always recorded with the…
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