The Recreations of Christopher North : Complete in One volume
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In the zeazon of the year. The Presbytery might have overlooked )'our fault, Mac, for the case was not a flagrant one, and you were willing, we understand, to make her an honest woman. Do you think you could recollect one of your sermons'? In action and in unction you had not )'our su- perior in the Synod. Do give us a screed about Nimrod or Nebuchadnezzar. No dese- cration in a sermon — better omitted, we grant, prayer and psalm. Should you be unable to reproduce an entire discourse, yet by do...ve- tailing — that is, a bit from one and a bit from another — surely you can be at no loss for half an hour's miscellaneous matter — heads and tails. Or suppose we let you off with a View of the Church Question. You look glum and shake your head. Can you, Mac, how can you resist that Pulpit 1 Behold in that semicircular low-browed cliff, backed by a range of bonny green braes dip- ping down from the hills that do themselves come shelving from the mountains, what ap- pears at first sight to be a cave, but is merely a blind window, as it were, a few feet deep, arched and faced like a beautiful work of ma- sonry, though chisel never touched it, nor man's hand dropped the line along the living stone thus wrought by nature's self, who often shows us, in her mysterious processes, re- semblances of effects produced by us her children on the same materials by our more most elaborate art.
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