What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

An exotic and irrational entertainment.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.