I can see why people are so skeptical [sic] about him, but I think he's on to something here. (regarded by organizations such as the BBC as an error)

People of sensibility have seldom good tempers.

He replied in a dry manner, that I would find it a Herculean task to chastise everybody who should laugh at my expense;

The whole of this vast mammaldom which so dwarfs us is itself no more than a tenth of the entirety of the vertebrates (the backboned animals).