[Joseph Black's] experiments on magnesia alba, quick lime, and other alkaline substances proved that fixed air is given off when limestone is burned, and that the same loss is incurred when it is dissolved in muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid).

All our foolish little paper-knives and pincushions have their origin in the gold and myrrh and frankincense that the three wise men brought to that lowly stable in Bethlehem.

The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]

This lenity, however, is said to have been productive of terrible consequences; and it was, therefore, found necessary, in about ten years fterwards, and in the same reign, again to make the offense of forcible rape a felony