It was only after the younger branch annexed the elder in 679 that Tsin became powerful and began to expand; and it was only when a policy of home rule and disintegration set in, involving the splitting up of Tsin's orthodox power into three royal states of doubtful orthodoxy, that China fell a prey to Ts'in ambition. Absit omen to us.

He evidently thinks the sweet little innocents never heard or thought of such a thing before, and would go on burying their curly heads in books, and sicklying their rosy faces with “the pale cast of thought” till the end of time […]

I repreſented to him the good Reception the two firſt Parts had met, that tho' they had been calculated by him, only for the Meridian of Grub-ſtreet, yet they were taken notice of by the better ſort; […]

Axin' yer pardin, Misther O'Brien, but 'tis well beknownst to a jintleman of your exthraordinady mintal an' quizzical fackilties that the consthruction of the words consthitutes the differ of langwidged, of which pothooks an' hangers is the ilimints.