Barnaby Rich is exceedingly angry with the inventor of the custom, which, however, with a laudable zeal for the honour of his country, he attributes to an Englishman, who, it seems, had his brains beat out with a pottlepot for his ingenuity […]

The analytic account of action is basically similar to the view presented by the autonomistically inclined authors discussed earlier. First, action is conceived as conscious and purposeful, in terms of a means—ends scheme.

How can I live among this gentle obsolescent breed of heroes, and not weep?

eye that scorcheth all it glares upon