Few of these groups or communities that are classed as savage show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.

The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, / With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head.

So that poor Brunout has nothing for it but to retreat with accelerated nimbleness, through rank after rank; Parthian-like, fencing as he flies....

An ass's head was placed so conveniently, that the party affected might easily with his mouth accost either of the animal's ears; which he was to apply close for a certain space, and by a fugitive faculty, peculiar to the ears of that animal, receive immediate benefit, either by eructation, or expiration, or evomition.