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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir, Vol. 1
Our poet got the first rudiments of his education at a school of minor note in Musselburgh. He was then entered at the Grammar School, which at that time was taught by Mr Taylor, and had a high character. At the boarding establishment con nected with the school were placed the sons of several of our old Scottish families of distinction. During his attendance of about six years at this school, young Moir learned the Latin, Greek, and French languages, and the elements of geometry and algebra. He was a cheerful, active, and dili gent scholar, and always stood high in his Classes. In after years, however, he used to say that his scholarship was but Shallow, and that the disadvan tage of his own deficiency made him all the more careful in giving his children a superior education. Taylor was a perfect model of the old Tory and Loyalist, Moir was a favourite and admiring dis ciple and so, perhaps, the boy insensibly caught from his master's well-known political character notions which gradually strengthened into that Conservatism of Church and State which was one of the steadfast principles of his manhood.
Attentive scholar though he was, we may be sure that a nature such as Moir's, Simple and healthy.
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