It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.