He was a pale and slender fellow, for he had not yet assumed the blimpishness of figure that would later accentuate the blimpishness of his politics.

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For if the paralleles be of this nature, that howe muche the nearer we are th’equinoctiall, so muche the greater is the heate: and howe muche the furder remoued from th’equinoctiall, so muche the colder the qualitie of the aire is: there must seme a manifest repugnancie, betwixt Auicenne, & the Geographers.

They might be men: they certainly were funny (funny-peculiar not funny-ha ha).