[…] that most authorities now accept the possibility that Hatschek's pit might be the homologue - in some ancestral form, the precursor - of Rathke's pouch, and so of the adenohypophysis.

The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.

I had been too profoundly disabused of life's dearest illusions ever again to allow of their sweet engrossment.

Whence to include the whole Nation, and those that never yet thus offended, under such a diffident and suspectfull prohibition, may plainly be understood what a disparagement it is.