The great theological question now heaving and throbbing in the minds of Christian men is this:- No, I wont talk about these things now.

My remarks might be repeated, and it would give my friends pain to see with what personal incivilities I should be visited.

Besides, what business has a mere boarder to be talking about such things at a breakfast- table?
Let him make puns.

To be sure, he was brought up among the Christian fathers, and learned his alphabet out of a quarto "Concilium Tridentinum." He has also heard many thousand theological lectures by men of various denominations; and it is not at all to the credit of these teachers, if he is not fit by this time to express an opinion on theological matters.
I know well enough that there are some of you who had a great deal rather see me stand on my head than use it for any purpose of thought.

Does not my friend, the Professor, receive at least two letters a week, requesting him to.