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,—a little thin book, with a black cover, “whrein one may read strange things,” such as arguments in favuor of damnation, eternity of hell-torments, and other matters equally amusing. They are made so as to last exactly fifteen minutes by the clock. The deliverer of these entertaining and instructive lectures is for the most part, a black-legs; though some are good kind of men; but I have seen “such things that mount the pulpit with a skip, and then skip down again.”

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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