Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?

I'm trying to get over my fear of flying.

the distance is as vast between him and one of us, as subsisted between the Augustan majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute pittance at Jerusalem !

What he really means is that the recommended use of anti-venene does not entirely agree with one set of medical opinion.