Mother of Science, Now I feel thy Power Within me cleere, not onely to diſcerne Things in thir Cauſes, but to trace the wayes Of higheſt Agents

A great pleasure of a late afternoon is to take a seat (unfortunately uncushioned) on the terrace and knock back a few ice-bedded freshly shucked oysters or clams from the shellfish menu.

[T]hey, who might have been admired and venerated as high priests of their order, are revealed, by their own venality, to be no better than sciolistical professors, whose juggling arts, losing tricks, and gambling speculations, excite no less the derision, than the contempt of the multitude.

Eton mess, for example, which is another name for strawberry fool, links the name of a famous public school with disorder or the army slang for a meal, … One friend remembered a banana mess of mashed banana with two scoops of ice cream and loads of cream, and thought the strawberry version something that might be served at the 4th June College picnic, …