This country is divided into ſixteen provinces, fifteen of which lie within the great wall, and the other without.…Such are the boundaries and divisions of China Proper, from the most authentic accounts ;…

When I used a couple of words that an Uncle from the Boston States considered beyond my years, he asked me if I had swallowed the dictionary.

There’s no need to rehearse the same old argument; we’ve heard it before, and we all agree.

Your shoestring is untied.