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during the Civil War, practically nothing had been heard out of England. The savants of Leipzig, Paris, and Amsterdam had begun to think of it as a rock in the high Atlantic, overrun by heavily armed preachers.
nincompoopery
I enrolled at that old vicar-mill: Trinity College, Cambridge.
But it’s the middle of the night, the birds are in Boston and Charlestown, slumbering in their nests of plaited pirate hair.
The construction of equations was an exercise in translation.
If Isaac was looking for a mistress (or a master or whatever the sodomitical equivalent of a mistress was),
These simple terms—“come about,” for example—denote procedures that are as complicated and tradition-bound as the installation of a new Pope.
having it gambled for him by a Captain who shows signs of—what’s a diplomatic way to put it—having a rich and complicated inner life.
a bawdy tale, when told in so much detail, became monotonous, and then started to seem calculated to inspire Feelings of profound guilt and self-loathing in any male listeners who happened to be nearby.
he was possessed of that urge, common to all men, to blow things up for its own sake.
a hearty, grizzled man in his middle fifties, with all that that implied in the way of eyebrows.
For if God has laid these rules down arbitrarily, then they are occult by nature.
Mostly these were simply bonfires, which were the only way Englishmen had of showing emotion.
