John Barbour
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- Ministers and Music
- FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON
- John Barbour's Facebook Page
- Bruce or the Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince - Robert de Broyss, King of Scots - Vol. Ii
- Bruce or the Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince Robert de Broyss, King of Scots
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,670x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,728x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,357x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,339x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,859x
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Quotes
- “Storys to rede ar delatibillSuppos that thai be nocht bot fabill,Than suld storys that suthfast werAnd thai war said on gud manerHave doubill plesance in heryng.The first plesance is the carpyng,And the tother the suthfastnesThat schawys the thing rycht as it wes.”
- “A! Fredome is a noble thing!Fredome mays man to haiff liking.Fredome all solace to man giffis,He levys at es that frely levys!”
- “Na he that ay has levyt freMay nocht knaw weill the propyrteThe angyr na the wrechyt domeThat is couplyt to foule thyrldome,Bot gyff he had assayit it.Than all perquer he suld it wyt,And suld think fredome mar to prysThan all the gold in warld that is.”
- “Luff is off sa mekill mycht,That it all paynys makis lych.”
- “Thai eyt it with full gud willThat soucht na nother sals thar-tillBot appetyt.”
- “Na thar may na man fyr sa covyrThan low or rek sall it discovyr.”
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- date of death
- 1395-01-01
- date of birth
- 1316-00-00
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1316 births1395 deaths14th-century Scottish poets14th-century Scottish Roman Catholic priestsAlumni of the University of OxfordEarly Scots poetsScots-language writersScots MakarsScottish expatriates in FranceScottish male poetsScottish politiciansUniversity of Paris alumniWriters from AberdeenWriters from Aberdeenshire