One of the Maxims which the Devil, in a late Viſit upon Earth, left to his Diſciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the Stool from under you. In plain Engliſh, when you have made your Fortune by the good Offices of a Friend, you are adviſed to diſcard him as ſoon as you can.

He had not quite decided whether to be a physicist or a chemist; probably he would have chosen the trans-Uranian borderland between the two.

They have come to witness the Beginning. The rebirth of Paradise, despoiled by mankind.

Since the war there has been a reallocation of output from pitheads in the North Staffordshire coalfield, resulting in a flow of coal northwards; ….