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There was a gey pompis-like carlie cam 'an' tried to birz Sandy an 'me up the seat; but Sandy sune made a job o' him.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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* Vos vero suspensi interim atque solliciti honestis voluptatibus abstinetis, non spectacula visitis, non pompis interestis, convivia publica absque vobis, sacra certamina: [1783] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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: “Vos vero suspensi interim atque solliciti honestis voluptatibus abstinetis, non spectacula visitis, non pompis interestis, convivia publica absque vobis, sacra certamina” (“But meantime, anxious and unsettled, you are abstaining from respectable enjoyments; you attend no spectacles, you take no part in public displays, public banquets and the sacred contest you decline”).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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