The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!