We do not, for instance, treat diphtheria mithridatically, or according to the Jenner-Pasteur method.

As to their Cowardiſe and Effœminacy, it is chiefly owing to the Seaſons, that the Aſiaticks are leſs warlike, and milder in their behaviour than the Europæans: for the changes are not great with reſpect to heat and cold, but nearly the ſame.

[…] and hope to build with such permanency and force as to offstand the headwaters which will surely come again.

David Jones had seen death on a vast and public scale but never before domestically and at close quarters. This domestic death revolted him. … The bowels and bladder collapsed, sheets and mattress had to be burnt at the bottom of the back garden. The body, having vulgarly shed its ordures, now turned into an ordure itself.