He was seasoned wood, and took the world pretty wisely; not reckless of castigation, as some boys become, nor oversensitive as to dehonour, as his friend and comrade beside him was.

[…] the moderate advice took place, and the people, upon the Kings engagement of soon remedying their miseries, return’d with blessings for him […]

The screws were crossheads and the screwdriver was slightly too large for them, so he had to hold it at an angle.

Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another.