Further and closer analysis of Buchanan’s psalm paraphrases would probably show more clearly the Christianised theme of exile, with its modes of self-consolation, appeal, and invective, which does not seem obscured, but if anything rather intensified by the ‘antiquitisation’ of their imagery and code.

The daring adventures of the American people in their scalings of the Alps and the Rocky mountains and in their swimmings across the Niagara rapids […]

She laughed, a gusty laugh, one that lit up her entire face and told you that she found fun in most situations.

...it appears to be a small step from (1) and (2) to the identification of a sufficiently large mass with a macroscopic mass and, by analogy, to the consideration as macroscopic any system having sufficiently large quantum numbers associated with it...