We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.

Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.

that being forbidden to be bold thou shouldst grow impudent, or being suffered to be familiar thou shouldst wax hail-fellow?.

In the next sentence we have an acknowledged parenthesis, a forestating of a logical objection or question: 'There was a succession of days, at all events, when contact with him—and in its immediate effect, as if it could produce no other— […]