All along he made drugs: 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine, or MEM for short, was his Rosetta stone, a valuable and dramatic compound that opened the door to a whole class of drugs based on changes at the 4 position of a molecule's central carbon ring.

The association of Febronist bishops with Prussia's League of Princes in 1785 angered Joseph II and left the imperial church politically vulnerable by the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1792.

The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;

I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain accent was a plain knave; which for my part I will not be, though I should win your displeasure to entreat me to 't.