She said Johnson was “a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand”, adding that it was “so desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition”.

In this way he dams the stream and prevents the issuing waters, and puts out and kills in a moment all desire and hope of knowledge, declaring that harmony is preëstablished, or what is the same thing, that the preëstablishment is an occult quality.[…]I shall not here entertain the question, how far these propositions are consistent with the foregoing, or with the system of preëstablishment;

Nature has three great stages, through which she carries each and all: there is first a false affirmative, then a false negative; then there is the combining doctrine, which destroys the error by destroying the partiality and exclusiveness of both.

When solar beams / Parch thirsty human veins, the damask'd meads, / Unforc'd display ten thousand painted flow'rs / Useful in potables.