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... minister of Abernyte, There are few f better fitted than be, alike by experience and heartfelt de- r votion to the canse, for speaking and writing on this subject. I'e consider Mr. Leitch extremely. happy in his choice of n a topic for discoursing upon to ...

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... their eyes. If I had combated directly their prejudices, I should not have succeeded; but by allowing the Free-traders to speak and act for themselves-in a word, by simply translating you-I hope to have given these prejudices a blow which they cannot ...

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... works which we have men. ?? together, we would arrive at no faint conception d the character of the volumes before us, We can speak with respect of the immense labour which the prusent compilation mksi have cost. Mr. Campbell, the son, if we are not -istaken ...

HIGHLAND SKETCHES

... vesper time all through the day, What once was a church is the home now of Echo, h'bich honest old Highlandmen frequently speak ?? And tell of the times it bad redden'd the cheek o' The folk, with the curious things it would say. The churchyard is cover'd ...

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... enormous pri60a to the nobility, and none of it is reported to have reached the middle or even the upper classes in Edinburgh, To speak of it as being served up by Mrs. Hamilton in that year is, there- 'fore, hardly pardonable. This is au error which authors ...

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... print: c The opening poem of the volume is entitled The Millenni i um, for which we shall allow thefollowving extract to speak. S The tis spooen of is after the arrival of the millennial epoch:- t: When sball the beast and gloomy prophet fall, Ai 'anish ...

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... permitted -three distinct persecutions on the-sam-grounds. [sit this' latitulekor license -which, induces some peronsA to speak and ,write of the case as.highly interesting and romantic - -If so, the proseaution of Mratrick Will be quoted as, a precedent ...

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... other illustrations .sb are simply ridiculous, and greatly mar the many other fo beauties of the work. For our part-not to speak pro- II fanely or irreverently-we had as lief have endeavoured to prove, or rather to illustrate, the doctrine of the t( Trinity ...

HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS.—PHILIP OF SPAIN.—THE SPANISH ARMADA.*

... ted, patientplod2 .ding invalid; with hite hir-nd prctrading.under.jaw, and drearyvisage,was sitting dayafter dy, seldom speaking, never smiling, seven or eight hours out of -every twenty -four, at a writing-table coveredwithbeaps of interminable despatches ...

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... dying. They had him laid out under the shade of a T) banian tree, and stunrounded byhis friends, Hewas weak, and ot aoold not speak above a whisper. I stooped( down to talk a- wish him, antd so did Mr. Nisbet. He had often attended in our services. After ...

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... oveer its sad condition. .) . What a lifuld tragedy queen it is,' thought Kenneath to o himself as his sister finished speaking,' it appearing to him InE that all this was simply a~piece of first-rate noting upon her air part Uon m sal' ow, shuktnever ...

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARY GRANVILLE.*

... Pendarves became so- t qliainted with the accomplishedDr. Delanya.Sbo only alludes E to.himincidentally in her letters; bat speaks in warm terms I of another Dobtdr'--Deah Swift. * ?? S Swift handsomely-,declared- that after -watching her long and narrowly ...