The cutcherry clerks and the police are with him everywhere; higher native officials are often on his side.

When he brings into the Commons a bill to suspend the payment of annates to Rome, he suggests a division of the House.

Along the walls, at the distance of every hundred yards, were square stone towers. In the parapets were also embrasures, and holes in merlons for archery; but there were no cannon, except a few old wrought-iron pieces near the gate.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] share the things you love with the world and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.