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Mr Snodgrass was obliged to walk into Irvine one evening, to get rid of

a raging tooth, which had tormented him for more than a week The

operation was so delicately and cleverly perforbeen

educated for the ar tilean what practice they can amid their native shades--that the

amiable divine found hi this visit, Saunders Dickie, the postht a London letter

to the door, for Miss Isabella; and Mr Snodgrass having desired the

servant to inquire if there were any for hi frole Esq, to the Rev Mr Charles Snodgrass

My Dear Friend--I never receive a letter froret, that talents like yours should be wilfully

consigned to the sequestered vegetation of a country pastor's life But

we have so often discussed this point, that I shall only offend your

delicacy if I now revert to it more particularly I cannot, however, but

reh a private station may be the happiest, a public is

the proper sphere of virtue and talent, so clear, superior, and decided

as yours I say this with the more confidence, as I have really, from

your letter, obtained a better conception of the queen's case, than from

all that I have been able to read and hear upon the subject in London

The rule you lay down is excellent Public safety is certainly the only

principle which can justifyto observe and enforce