They were both broiled o' th' coles i and a man may smell broil'd meat, I hope ? you are a scholar, upsolve me that, now.

The message of the astronauts, however, was not primarily one of Christmas cheer, and had nothing to do with the Prince of Peace or the spirit of the season. Instead, it consisted of a dramatic reading of the first ten verses of the Book of Genesis, the story of the creation of the world.

That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.

For Theophrastus insists that the scion's relation to the rootstalk is not essentially different from that of any other plant's relation to the earth. The rootstalk simply provides nourishment, just as the earth does, while the formation and growth of the scion are both due to the power of the scion itself.