My purpose is to […] traverse the nature, principles, and properties of this detestable vice—ingratitude.

A lease , or rather bargain and sale , upon some pecuniary consideration , for one year , is made by the tenant of the freehold to the lessee or bargainee

One of the might-have-beens of railway history, however, would have altered the appearance of Monsal Dale considerably. The western portion of the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (projected in 1891), from Chesterfield to Warrington, was planned to cross the dale and the Midland Line by a viaduct 543 yds. long and 272 ft. above the bed of the River Wye.

There has to be a term for it, but I tended to think of him as solosexual: a self-sufficient sexual entity having no real need for human contact outside of himself.