that I would haue thought my sincere plainnesse in that first part vpon that subiect, should haue ditted the mouth of the most enuious Momus

His [Barack Obama's] unofficial slogan 'fired up and ready to go!' was borrowed from an 'old lady in a church crown [Sunday best hat].

Some of the forces incline the land toward agricultural use, others incline it toward residential use. . . . There is no economic necessitousness that would dictate one or the other use.

Miss [Elizabeth Isabella] Spence is amongst the number of those industrious and praiseworthy ladies, of whose good sense we are so well assured that we shall very freely make such remarks as strike us, on her present sketches, &c. without the smallest apprehension of giving offence.