He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]

The solid, reliable Monsieur Pompidou was there, as safe a pair of hands as the most timorous bourgeois could wish for

In some cases the specimens were reshaped to make clearer the parallel between the divine order, in which God was creator of ores, and miners and smelters the creators of metals. In one Handstein, the blood of the crucified Christ rains down over the mining district, redeeming the world, just as the miners and smelters redeem the metals from the dross of the ore.

Omnium rerum viciſſitudo eſt, ones falling, is anothers riſing, and ſo fell it out with that ruind Dorpe or hamlet, which after it had relapſt into the Lordes handes for want of reparations, and there were not men enough in it to defend the ſhore from inuaſion, one Cerdicus a Plaſhing Saxon, that had reueld here and there with his battleaxe, on the bordring bankes of the decrepite ouerworne village now ſurnamed Gorleſtone threw forth his anchor, and with the aſſiſtance of his ſpeare, in ſtead of a pikeſtaffe, leapt agroũd like a ſturdie bruite, and his yeomen bolde caſt their heeles in their necke, and friſkt it after him, […]