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    handsome manner in which he has defended their right to rule ; but they will scarcely believe that the following description of the sex could proceed from him . i 4 Some women ( says he ) be wiser , better learned , discreater .

    constanter , than a number of men . " But others , ( his biographer says , 46 the most part ") he describes as * ' fond , foolish , wanton , flibbergibs , tatlers , trifling , wavering , witles , ' without counsel , feable ,

    careles , rashe proude , daintie , nise , tale-bearers , eves-droppers , ru . mour-raisers 5 evil-tongued , worseminded , and , in every wise , doltified with the dregges of the devil ' s dungehill ! ! ! " The rude author of the Monstrous Blast never spofce of the sex in terms half so disrespectful as these *

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    No . II . A Popish Miracle in Scotland . In the neighbourhood of Mussel burgh was a chapel dedicated to our lady of Loretto . In the course of the year 1559 , public

    notice was given by the friars , that they intended to put the truth of their , religion to the proof , by performing a miracle at the chapel of Loretto upon a young man who had been born blind . On the day

    appointed a vast concourse of people assembled from the three Lo-Uiians * The young man , accompanied with a solemn procession of Monks , was conducted to a scaffold erected on the outside of the

    chapel , and was exhibited to the multitudes . Many of them knew him to be the blind man , whom they had often seen begging , and whose necessities they had relieved 2 all looked on him , . and pronounced him stone blind . The

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    friars then proceeded to their de * votions with great fervency , invoking the assistance of the Virgin ,

    at whose shrine they stood ^ and of all the saints whom they honoured ; and after some time spent in prayers and religious ceremonies , the blind man opened his eyts ^ to the astonishment of the spectators . Having returned thanks to the friars and their saintly

    patrons for this wonderful cure , he was allowed to go . down from the scaffold , to gratify the curiosity of the people , and to receive their alms .

    It happened that there was among the crowd a gentleman of Fife , Robert Colville , of Qleish , who , from his romantic bravery ^ was usually called Squire Meldrum , in allusion to a person of that name , who had been

    celebrated by Sir David Lindsey . He was of Protestant principles , but his wife was of the Roman Catholic persuasion , and , being pregnant at this time , had sent a ser * vant with a present to the chapel of Loretto , to procure the

    assistance of the Virgin in her labour . The squire was too gallant to hurt his lady ' s feelings by prohibiting the present from being sent off , but he resolved to prevent the superstitious offering , and with that view had come to Mussel burgh . He had witnessed the miracle of

    curing the blind man with the distrust natural to a protestant ; and he determined , if possible , to detect the imposition before he left the place . Wherefore , having sought out the young man from

    the crowd , he put a piece of money of considerable value into his hand , and persuaded him to accompany him to his lodgings in Edinburgh , Taking him along

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    450 Extracts from M'Crie ' s Life of Knob .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 450, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/2/