All this had no effect, the sailor was wholly insusceptive of the softer passions, and without regard to tears or arguments persisted in his resolution to make me a man.

We find the same evasions and reticences and the same trick of producing opinion by reiterated assertion that is successful precisely to the extent to which it avoids rational argument and the danger of awakening the critical faculties of the people.

The friendship did not survive the row: they kept each other at a distance.

O thou bloody prison […] / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.