Here should the laced, straitened and waisted dandy or dandyess, whose beau-ideal of figure rests within the narrow span of slimness, and to whom any other view of the body is out of taste, out of conception, impossible -- here should they learn, while studying the flow and superfluity of a more polished age than their own, to doubt, at least, their sovereign and exclusive right to rack, and wrench, and torture poor human nature.

The simple truth is that in the dreadful muddle of the French military interests, the German strategy was daringly overmasterful.

He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....

A vain and frail protervity, an envious prattling.