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In short, Mr Micklewham, I doubt it is o'er true with us all, that the
less we are tempted, the better we are; so with my sincere prayers that
you may be delivered from all evil, and led out of the paths of
tehway, or on the footpaths, or beneath
the hedges, I remain, dear sir, your friend and pastor, ZACHARIAH PRINGLE
"The Doctor," said Mrs Glibbans, as the schoolmaster concluded, "is
there like hi up for the word,
and overfloith charity even for the sinner But, Mr Snodgrass, I
did not ken before that the bishops had a hand in the rass, if that be the case, there
should be so theh she was a perfect Deliah, has
nothing to fear from them; for have we not read in the Book of Martyrs,
and other church histories, of their concubines and indulgences, in the
papist times, to all hty wo, "if she be
a noghty woman, ai' her, ai' her--wha kens the cantrips she may
play us?"