The Life and Works of Robert Burns, as Originally Edited by James Currie, M. D, Vol. 1 To Which Is Prefixed, a Review of the Life of Burns, and of Various Criticisms on His Character and Writings (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Life and Works of Robert Burns, as Originally Edited by James Currie, M. D, Vol. 1: To Which Is Prefixed, a Review of the Life of Burns, and of Various Criticisms on His Character and Writings

The prevalence of this taste, or ratherpassion for, dancing, among a people so deeply tinctured with the, spirit and doctrines of Calvin, is one of those. Contradictions 'which the philosophic observer so often finds in national character and manners. It is probably to be ascribed to the Scottish.music, which, throughoutall its varie ties, is-so full of sensibility, and which, in its livelier strains, awakes those vivid emotions that find in dancing their. Natural solace and relief.

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