the craggineſſe and steepineſſe of places up and down is a great advantage to the dwellers

And, as it fell, his steed he ready found: On whom remounting fiercely forth be rode, Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode

When a philosopher adopted fully the Nominalist view of the signification of general language, retaining along with it the dictum de omni as the foundation of all reasoning, two such premisses fairly put together were likely, if he was a consistent thinker, to land him in rather startling conclusions.

[…] a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts, each terminating in a spike, as if for the dismal accommodation of lodgers who might prefer to impale themselves.