The same chapter says: The majority of ancient authors did excellent practical work, but they were not employed. Kuan Chung and Yen Ying 晏嬰 were as great statesmen as writers, Shang Yang and Yu Ch'ing 虞卿 (51) [author Yu-shih ch'un-ch'iu 虞氏春秋, an official at the court of King Hsiao-ch'eng of Chao, 265-245 B.C.] were as active in literature as in administration. (52)

The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.

“Vessels are so over” is the apparent subtext of this potpourri of the figurative, abstract and installational.

And therefore would I ſhould be algates ſlaine, / For while I liue, his right is in ſuſpence.