Nature herself is sentenced in your doom.

The principal clocks in this city ſtrike the hours from one to twelve progreſſively from the riſing of the ſun, and begin again after ſun‐ſet, which at firſt puzzles ſtrangers; but by the table of the æquation of time, publiſhed here, this may be reduced to the common method of calculating time.

After all it was we British who decided that sex and sport don't mix so why pamper to the poovy foreign trick of making our sportsmen dress like the girls in the Folies Bergere?

The cognizings which I have not yet considered all come to the soul by intervention of the nerves; and between them there are these differences: […]