The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots magazine, Volumes 15-181825 |
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Page 39
... minister and his lady in a dung cart ! but I suppose she still thinks herself on her father's farm ; for she can talk of nothing but cows , pigs , and poultry : faugh ! I have been told that the parson married her for money ; and if so ...
... minister and his lady in a dung cart ! but I suppose she still thinks herself on her father's farm ; for she can talk of nothing but cows , pigs , and poultry : faugh ! I have been told that the parson married her for money ; and if so ...
Page 40
... minister was there . As I passed through the back court , I was fiercely attacked by a brood - hen , surrounded by her chickens ; as I staggered to one side to avoid her attack , and afraid of trampling on her chirping brood , which ...
... minister was there . As I passed through the back court , I was fiercely attacked by a brood - hen , surrounded by her chickens ; as I staggered to one side to avoid her attack , and afraid of trampling on her chirping brood , which ...
Page 41
... minister's sermons to be , formed of good material , but spoiled in the cooking . I now discovered that this worthy couple both earned the bread they ate ; for as I had seen the hus- band digging his dinner from the bowels of the earth ...
... minister's sermons to be , formed of good material , but spoiled in the cooking . I now discovered that this worthy couple both earned the bread they ate ; for as I had seen the hus- band digging his dinner from the bowels of the earth ...
Page 42
... minister appeared , I took my departure , re- sisting every entreaty to stay break- fast . At home , I could not help con- trasting the lady I had just left with Mrs Baxter ; for never had I seen two women about equal age , and in ...
... minister appeared , I took my departure , re- sisting every entreaty to stay break- fast . At home , I could not help con- trasting the lady I had just left with Mrs Baxter ; for never had I seen two women about equal age , and in ...
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... minister to the most unbounded wants of voluptuousness . Pride , on the contrary , instructed his disciple to seek celebrity from moroseness , contradiction , and ri- gour . He inculcated a conduct too severe for human nature to adopt ...
... minister to the most unbounded wants of voluptuousness . Pride , on the contrary , instructed his disciple to seek celebrity from moroseness , contradiction , and ri- gour . He inculcated a conduct too severe for human nature to adopt ...
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