Mealymouthing (Foto, Coz)

Dear Coz,
° Just gol durn it all to halifax!
° I see your point, we’re both from the country and why should it be only you that call a spade la vanga?

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If we are allowed to examine the historical part of the Jewish books, by the same rules as are followed in the examination of other histories, it must be agreed with all commentators, that the recital of the adventures of Abraham, as it is found in the Pentateuch, would be liable to many difficulties, if it were found in another history.

((List of “difficulties”))

This is all above our comprehension. Everything is miraculous in the history of the Hebrews; we have already said it, and we again repeat it, that we believe these prodigies, and all the others, without examining them.

° This by no means equivocal circumlocution, excerpted from Voltaire’s Philosophy of History, dedicated with wholehearted (?) fawning to Catherine the Second, Empress of All the Russias, is how he managed to live to be 84. Usually in exile, but always in style.

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° Nowadays, of course, Government has entirely changed its nature, and is only ever benevolent and nurturing.
° And so one continues to believe all prodigies, without examining them.

° Credulously timetravelling, Giac.