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What with this noise on the part of Mr. Commissioner Pordage, and what with the cries of Sergeant Drooce on the raft astern (which were sometimes more than Tom Packer could silence), we often made our slow way down the river, anything but quietly.
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“That is not enough, sir,” cries Commissioner Pordage, getting wroth.
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The beach was beginning to be a lively scene with the preparations for careening the sloop, and with cargo, and spars, and rigging, and water-casks, dotted about it, and with temporary quarters for the men rising up there out of such sails and odds and ends as could be best set on one side to make them, when Mr. Commissioner Pordage comes down in a high fluster, and asks for Captain Maryon.
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“Very good, Captain Maryon,” says Pordage, in a tremendous passion.
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The beach was beginning to be a lively scene with the preparations for careening the sloop, and with cargo, and spars, and rigging, and water-casks, dotted about it, and with temporary quarters for the men rising up there out of such sails and odds and ends as could be best set on one side to make them, when Mr. Commissioner Pordage comes down in a high fluster, and asks for Captain Maryon.
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“That is not enough, sir,” cries Commissioner Pordage, getting wroth.
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“Very good, Captain Maryon,” says Pordage, in a tremendous passion.
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What with this noise on the part of Mr. Commissioner Pordage, and what with the cries of Sergeant Drooce on the raft astern (which were sometimes more than Tom Packer could silence), we often made our slow way down the river, anything but quietly.
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Anabaptism, and on the _illuminati_ of the ultra Puritans in England, bringing forth Independent Fifth Monarchy men, George Fox, Flood, Law, and Pordage.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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She became profoundly impressed with the writings of Boehme, as Pordage had been still earlier, and under the _suggestion_ of
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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