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  • But suppose that Scott lived unsuspected of writing his novels, which, let us say, he signed "James Hogg," and died without confessing his secret, and without taking his elaborate precautions for its preservation on record.

    Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

  • And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner by James Hogg, in which, once a man believes he is among the saved, he can commit any sin he wants to and be sure he will go to heaven.

    Jane Smiley: HuffPost Book Review: Republican Gomorrah 2009

  • The syndicate was led by James Hogg, the three-hundred-pound ex-governor and progressive champion of Texas.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • The syndicate was led by James Hogg, the three-hundred-pound ex-governor and progressive champion of Texas.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • Writer James Hogg examined Justice's birth certificate and was astounded to discover his subject was born at 39 Baring Road, Lewisham.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Writer James Hogg examined Justice's birth certificate and was astounded to discover his subject was born at 39 Baring Road, Lewisham.

    Birthplace of Justice Found 2007

  • In The View from Castle Rock Munro quotes a letter from her great-great-great-grandfather complaining of Scottish writers like his own cousin James Hogg, the author of Memoirs of a Justified Sinner:

    The Lamp in the Mausoleum Lurie, Alison 2006

  • And it is at this point Dominionists introduced a perversion to Calvinism -- the same one James Hogg utilizes in his The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner -- its technical name is "supralapsarianism."

    "Elect" theology by Carol Wolman 2005

  • Mordecai, Mullion, Warnell, and James Hogg, a man of most extraordinary genius, a Scottish shepherd.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • In 1819-21 James Hogg published (and probably wrote) the Jacobite song Will Ye Go To Sheriffmuir which uses the tune.

    We'll ne'er forget the people 2002

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