Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

ch. 14: Consider, then, who is your best friend: he that would have brought him to condign punishment, or he that has saved him?

As if hell pigs were not enough of a blight on the Oligocene landscape, Europe was home to two more groups of pig-like creatures.

His imperial majesty likewise guaranties to the king of Prussia the perpetual possession of upper Silesia; and the king guaranties to the emperour the perpetual possession of upper Austria, as soon as he shall have occupied it by conquest."