... are discovered singing a melancholy duet, bewailing the loss of an honest tar, whom they suppose (to use the burthen of the song) is in Davy Jones's locker.

Candidly speaking, I thought her a little busy-body; but her father, blind like other parents, seemed perfectly content to let her wait on him, and even wonderfully soothed by her offices.

He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.

The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.