His intellect possesses a sort of alkahestic quality. No composite entity but breaks under his mental catalysis, and his sense of continuity seems to dissuade him from dissipating his thought into such grammatical individualities as sentences, for he ramifies his theme with clause after clause, in bewildering profusion, til a sentence extends sometimes through a score or more of lines of his book, and mental continuity well-nigh exhausts itself in wending the verbal causeway he throws across his thought.

Restore your selues, vnto your temper, Fathers; And, without perturbation, heare me speake:

She mightily aventred towards one, And downe him smot ere well aware he weare

The government is increasingly out of step with public opinion.