a vagrant beggar

The scheme of pantheistic omniscience, so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day,... would have found little favour with the religious and philosophic nescience of St Austin.

The employees really don't have much elbow room in which to explore new ideas.

Physicians, recruited to the antitea cause, stated that the drink weakened the tone of the stomach, and therefore of the whole system, inducing' tremors and spasmodic affections.