The gists of the reports, however, their logic, their structural coherence, are molded by a concern to reconstruct the past.

Most Dogs are intelligent animals, and their behaviour is usually predictable and manageable in the hands of a responsible owner. FTFY.

[…] in himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard with Gold Dazles the croud, and sets them all agape.

On a drizzly mid-January evening, I stood at the arches of the wall of Buda Castle, overlooking the Danube and the 19th-century Chain Bridge that links Buda with Pest.