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We should ill perform the part of faithful historians, did we omit to

record the sentiments expressed by the coe of the points of orthodoxy had not their equal

in the three adjacent parishes, roundly declared, that Mr Andrew

Pringle's letter was nothing but a peesemeal of clishmaclavers; that

there was no sense in it; and that it was just like the writer, a canary

idiot, a touch here and a touch there, without anything in the shape of

cordiality or satisfaction

Miss Isabella Tod answered this objection with that sweetness of in diffidence, which so well beco the dog, that she thought Mr Andrew had shown a fine

sensibility "What is sensibility without judg in the water, and a raising of bells?

Couldna the falloithout a' his parleyvoos, have said, that such and

such was the case, and that the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh

away?--but his clouds, and his spectres, and his visions of Job!--Oh, an

he could but think like Job!--Oh, an he would but think like the patient

ed to claut his flesh with a bit of a broken crock, we

le, he's a

gone dick; I never had comfort or expectation of the free-thinker, since

I heard that he was infected with the blue and yellow calah Review; in which, I am credibly told, it is set forth, that

woizzard, like a