Blaming of Fortune, which such troubles threw, / And ioyd to make proofe of her crueltie / On gentle Dame, so hurtlesse, and so trew ….

however, we must not speak of a desk but only of smooth, hard sense-data as our hands are in contact with the surface. And since we do not know if there are any material objects, we must consider our hand as a handish sense-datum to accommodate our subjectivist friends.

Was America known in the Fifth Century, as is now said, in the Bibliothetical Circles of Germany, on the Authority of Chinese Writings?

Dr. Tucker accompanied us on our return; and we made a call on General Van Rensselaer. He is the Patroon, or Lord of the Manor here; and is considered the greatest landholder in the United States.