[B]y those many kings mentioned in the Old Testament, thirty and one in the little land of Canaan, (Joshua xii. 24,) is meant only toparchs, not great kings, but lords of a little dition and dominion; […]

And then the motley Paultards with their freedom and liberty signs? LOL. Ultimate irony: Like they believe in their 'freedoms' to control and 'liberties' to stick their snouts into somebody else's reproductive freedoms. What a mob of hypocrites!

On the other hand, the local people are for the most part crowded in the western part of this city, that is, the districts of Ta-tao-ch'-en and Wanhua.

There is nothing original in absent-mindedness. True originally lies elsewhere. Really, the lower classes have no nous.