Wee sillie soules, take the matter too too heauily.

Let realism have its demonstration, comedy its criticism, or even bawdry its horselaugh at the expense of sexual infatuation, if it must; but to ask us to subject our souls to its ruinous glamour, to worship it, deify it, and imply that it alone makes our life worth living, is nothing but folly gone mad erotically—a thing compared to which Falstaff's unbeglamored drinking and drabbing is respectable and rightminded.

Government has slowly but positively moved from an active course of following plans and policies to the easier and more expedient course of the counterpuncher.

The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.