The barber answered, " I never neglects business for any thing, but who, as I tells them at our club , can be unconcerned at the present kerises and hermgency , we is now no longer barberas like our hancestors , we now knows what's what; we read the Gazetteer, and the Morning Post, and Morning Chronicle, and Dr. Prices' Sarments ; not as we of our club sets great store by sarments , unless they be of the right sort , against Bishops and Kings, and for liberty and equality, and Dr. Priestley's paper-books ,* he is the man of the true light. He says as how there is a gun-powder plot that will blow up the church."
*Meaning, perhaps, pamphlets.
"What! Mr Barber, I'm afraid you are not orthodox," said our hero.
" Horthodok ! no, d--n me , no; I'm one of your Tarins as I tells our Mr. Stave, the clark."
"Tarians! who are they?" says Douglas.
" I can't say as how I knows much who they be, but Dr. Priestley is all for them; and I swears by him , I be one of your haretics , by jingo I be -- I be none of your ignorants that minds parsons, and all that those d--d stuff . I be one of your losophers ."

The elderly lady, interrupting his reverie, said she supposed leaving Edinburgh put him down in the mouth; adding, it was natural for a young person to look glum on parting with his friends, but that when he knowed London he would set no store by Edinburgh and them boorish places .
" I myself were in Scotland in my younger days, and thought it a smartish place enough, but now, as I knows the world, I laughs at my own ignorance in ever liking so stupid, a low-lifed a place. The folks in Edinburgh are so dirty and mean, and the worst bredest persons , and speaks such an outlandish lingo-- they knows nothing , as my daughter says, of grammar, and them there sort of things . Then they has no amusements like Sadler's Wells , White-Conduit House, Mother Red Cap's, the Hopperas , and Masquelades , Bagnigge Wells, and the like of those. No, no, in London we knows life , that we does . You will think nothing of Edinburgh when you comes to be acquainted with London."

"I," said one, "have the good fortune to be employed by the very highest connections. Mr. Deputy Dripping has often took me with him in his own shay , and recommends to me all the young men as he can , and them are not a little . Indeed, every one allows as how m y manners of larning the boys, both writing and accompts, is equal to any that has ever been invented; but what I most values myself upon, and thinks myself most completest in, is grammar. The Deputy, his friend the Alderman, and Sir John, often comes and eats their mutton with me . Although the Alderman and I be such good friends , we dont have the same opinion. He is all for the funds, I were always for mortgages ."

"Oh, my beloved bretheren," he said, in a true Caledonian accent , "what a blessed doctrine it is that we are not to be clothed, yea, I say unto you, clothed in filthy nasty rags of our ain righteousness, but the splendid robs of Christ. It dis na signify how great sinners you ha been, or are, provided you do but believe . Do na be loosing your time in laabouring aifter morality and virtue, and sic haithenish things, seek for grace, seek for it, and not only speunefus but ladlefus , not only ladlefus but kettlefus . The grace of God is irresistible when ainsce you have had the effectual calling, you ay persaivere in the parts of grace. I noo proceed to expound to you in our chief doctrines of the persaivairance of the Sants .
" Dinna understand that the Sants are to persaivere in any particular kinds of works, only in faith. As to works, the Sants ken better than to value themselves on them; Satan often buffets the ailect , tempting them to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life; as to the lust of the flesh, I wonna say that the Sants dinna indulge in them as much as other folks , but then what dis it signify what they do with their impure bodies, so that they keep the sowls pure from unbelif; but as the backslidings of the Sants are a stumbling block to the wicked, I coonsel all that ken themselves to be of the ailect , to keep among their ain number. Why should not the lambs of God play together ?"

[...]there he found Mrs. Advance, who received him with very great cordiality, although, on recollection, she said she was excessive angry with him, for being engaged the preceding Wednesday [...] The lady herself possessed that species, or, rather, quality, of understanding which is usually denominated shrewdness . Although she often made herself ridiculous by an attempted assumption of the manners of high life, yet, amidst the foolish vanity that produced it, her conversation was frequently agreeable, and often even intelligent, but although Mrs. Advance had a sharp understanding, her manners and dialect were those that marked her education to have been among the lower orders of the inhabitants of London, or the neighbourhood, her language was of that sort which ordinarily distinguishes cockneys . Her early years had been spent in that sort of society which tended to make its disciplines at once vulgar and petulant; at a later period she had been raised to a higher situation, but, although she was not without some appearance of the deportment belonging to her recent condition, still the cloven foot never failed to appear; there was a flowering of fashion upon a VERY BROAD ground-work of vulgarity .

But the highest perfection ever attained by a Briton, in this kind of writing, belongs to the author of Tom Jones. In describing man as he is, human nature, either in general, or modified by particular situations, opinions, habits, and pursuits; in exhibiting character, either in detailed operation, or by a few strokes; in preserving consistency; in making language, sentiments, and actions, appropriate to the different personages ; in shewing the operation of affections, either habitual or accidental, the rise and progress of passion; in variety of incident, all subservient to the main design; in natural and pathetic situation; in humour, either dilated or compressed; in wit, strong and brilliant; in interesting the reader, no writer of our country ever equalled Fielding.

She was what is called in Scotland, a sonsy lass , that is, en bon point -- a species of charms to which William had often declared himself very partial.

M r. Aitchison [...] trusted entirely to his wit, a quality which, in that orator, consisted exclusively in broad Scotch; a mode of pronunciation, it must be allowed, as much a-kin to wit as spouting is to eloquence.

Charles modestly answered [...] that he had soon found Vampus to have little ability and information; that he had, once or twice, thought of applying to be removed; but as Vampus was civil to him, and he could acquire the English pronunciation as well under a weak man as an able man , and could pursue his own studies, if without any advantage from the knowledge of his master, at least without any hurt from his ignorance, he had refrained writing to his father on the subject.