We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship […] and what is merely circumstantial.
If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of oxygen remained after the deflagration, the mixture consisted of six volumes of hydrogen and six volumes of oxygen.
The disparate time zones of Britain were unified under 'railway time' - as Dickens famously observed in Dombey: 'It was if the sun itself had given in.'
‘I’ll pray for nane o’ him,’ said Meg, ‘nor for you neither, you randy dog. The times are sair altered since I was a kinchin-mort […]’
