will indeed."
"Isa has giving me advice, which is, that when I feal Satan beginning to
tempt me, that I flea him and he would flea me." "Remorse is the worst
thing to bear, and I am afraid that I will fall a marter to it."
Poor dear little sinner! Here comes the world again: "In my travels I
met with a handsome lad named Charles Balfour Esq., and from him I got
ofers of marage--offers of marage, did I say? Nay plenty heard me." A
fine scent for "breach of promise"!
This is abrupt and strong: "The Divil is curced and all his works. 'Tis
a fine work _Newton on the profecies_. I wonder if there is another book
of poems comes near the Bible. The Divil always girns at the sight of
the Bible." "Miss Potune" (her "simpliton" friend) "is very fat; she
pretends to be very learned. She says she saw a stone that dropt from
the skies; but she is a good Christian." Here comes her views on church
government: "An Annibabtist is a thing I am not a member of--I am a
Pisplekan (Episcopalian) just now, and" (O you little Laodicean and
Latitudinarian!) "a Prisbeteran at Kirkcaldy!"--(_Blandula! Vagula!
coelum et animum mutas quae trans mare_ (i.e. _trans
Bodotriam_)--_curris_!)--"my native town." "Sentiment is not what I am
acquainted with as yet, though I wish it, and should like to practise
it." (!) "I wish I had a great, great deal of gratitude in my heart, in
all my body." "There is a new novel published, named _Self-Control_"
(Mrs. Brunton's)--"a very good maxim forsooth!" This is shocking:
"Yesterday a marrade man, named Mr. John Balfour, Esq., offered to kiss
me, and offered to marry me, though the man" (a fine directness this!)
"was espused, and his wife was present and said he must ask her
permission; but he did not. I think he was ashamed and confounded before
3 gentelman--Mr. Jobson and 2 Mr. Kings." "Mr. Banester's" (Bannister's)
"Budjet is to-night; I hope it will be a good one. A great many authors
have expressed themselves too sentimentally." You are right, Marjorie.
"A Mr. Burns writes a beautiful song on Mr. Cunhaming, whose wife
desarted him--truly it is a most beautiful one." "I like to read the
Fabulous historys, about the histerys of Robin, Dickey, flapsay, and
Peccay, and it is very amusing, for some were good birds and others bad,
but Peccay was the most dutiful and obedient to her parients." "Thomson
is a beautiful author, and Pope, but nothing to Shakespear, of which I
have a little knolege. 'Macbeth' is a prett
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