( '63 ) 
^The young parfon, without fpeaking a 
word, deliberately took off his band, and 
laid it on the table. The Doctor's choler 
inftantly fubiided, and the company laugh- 
ed heartily at this conclufion of the duel. 
Now, though this behaviour of the Divine 
might not be ftrictly canonical, yet it gain- 
ed him more general efteeni than the beft 
fermon he could have preached. 
A man of honour, a gentleman^ they are fy- 
nonimous terms, is eminently diftingui fried 
from the reft of mankind, by the uniform 
unreftrained rectitude of his conduct. Other 
men are honeft in fear of the punifhments 
which the Law might inflict: they are re- 
ligious in expectation of being rewarded, or 
in dread of the Devil, in the next world. A 
gentleman would be juft, if there were no 
written laws human or divine, except thofe 
that are written on his heart by the finger 
of his Creator. In every climate, under 
every fyftem of religion, he is the fame. He 
kneels before the univerfal throne of God, 
in gratitude for the bleffings he has receiv- 
ed, and in humble folicitation for his future 
protection. He venerates the piety of good 
men of all religions. He deflurbs not the 
religion of his country, becaufe the agita- 
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