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O! reader, put not your trust in man, but, while God is ready to direct you, rely solely on his Holy Word. Ed. 'Happily, or haply, were formerly used to express the same meaning. Ed. 'Sink-souls' is one of Bunyan's strong Saxonisms, full of meaning, 'Sink' is that in which filth or foulness is deposited. 'She poured forth out of her hellish sink, Her fruitful cursed spawn. Spencer. Ed.
Much the same is it with many other sinewy Saxonisms of this sort, which emigrated to New-England rocks with the noble brawn of the old English emigrants in the time of the Commonwealth. Thus, some of the best and furthest-descended English words the etymological Howards and Percys are now democratised, nay, plebeianised so to speak in the New World.
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