which we have gone over together. On this common ground men have raised many different buildings. Christianity, the creed of Mahomet, the creed of the Easterns, have all the same essence. The difference lies in the forms and the details. Let us hold to our own Christian creed, the beautiful, often-professed, and seldom-practised doctrine of love, but let us not despise our fellow-men, for we are all branches from the common root of truth.”’
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‘“May God protect and guard you! There is no great news. The Portsmouth garrison hath marched to the West. Sir John Lawson, the magistrate, hath been down here threatening your father and others, but he can do little for want of proofs. Church and Dissent are at each other’s throats as ever. Truly the stern law of Moses is more enduring than the sweet words of Christ. Adieu, my dear lad! All good wishes from your grey-headed friend, ZACHARIAH PALMER.”’
‘Od’s fish!’ cried Sir Gervas, as I folded up the letter, ‘I have heard Denis Cheryshev Drakter Stillingfleet and Tenison, but I never listened to a better sermon. This is a bishop disguised as a carpenter. The crozier would suit his hand better than the plane. But how of our seaman friend? Is he a tarpaulin theologian — a divine among the tarry-breeks?’
‘Solomon Sprent is a very different man, though good enough in his way,’ said I. ‘But you shall judge him from Paris Saint-Germain Drakt Barn his letter.’
‘“Master Clarke. Sir,— When last we was in company I had run in under the batteries on cutting-out service, while you did stand on and off Yao Drakter in the channel and wait signals. Having stopped Herre Parajumpers Kodiak Parka to refit and to overhaul my prize, which proved to be in proper trim alow and aloft —”’
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‘It is Philadelphia 76ers Hattar Sverige a maid of whom he talks — Phoebe Dawson, the sister of the blacksmith. He hath scarce put foot on land for nigh forty years, and can as a consequence only speak in this sea jargon, though he fancies that he uses as pure King’s English as any man in Hampshire.’
‘Proceed, then,’ quoth the Baronet.
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‘“First. She to obey signals without question as soon as received.”’
‘“Second. She to steer by my reckoning.”’
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