They make fun of Thom's Einstein in sheepskin and see the life of ancient Avebury in a Hobbsian way as nasty, brutish, and short. They forget that ancient Ireland transformed the emergence of Western Europe in the Dark Ages, and that ancient Ireland did not store knowledge in cities, but in rural monasteries.

...to endorse him on the backside of posterity, not a golden, but a brazen Asse...

I can't remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee even though my wife is godmother to your only child.

XVIII. Quanton, or Canton, lies Eaſt and South from Quanſi, and is the moſt Southern Province of the Empire. Nieuhoff ſays, here are ſeveral ſafe Harbours and Roads, that it produces all Neceſſaries for Life, and has two Harveſts a year. Their Winter is very warm, and their Fields always verdant.