“You'll try it, some day, like enough; but you'll get tired of the change pretty soon.” “Why?” “Well, I'll tell you. Now you've always been a sailor; did you ever try some other business?”

a divergent lens

So that the art and practic part of life Must be the mistress to this theoric

The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record.