[R]eputation is an idle and moſt falſe impoſition , oft got without merit and loſt without deſeruing.

Without my glasses, I could only blurrily see what was happening.

So we all stuck our feet into cow-pats, and after walking over the frost it was bosker and warm sure enough.

In 1858, taking up his commission once more in the Royal Navy, he was appointed an officer of the guard ship at Malta, and subsequently was given command of the gunship Foxhound, which patrolled in the Mediterranean.