Talke not to me of Dick snary, nor Richard-snary; I care not how little I come neare them.

General education and the cultivation of the Greek language were considered issues of political significance, so poems did not have to be overtly political to be regarded as relevant or printworthy.

Brian, Katie's step-father, had been in the office for over an hour, and Estella, who taught in the class below, had been hard pressed to stop her students from muttering and giggling at the low boom and roar of Mr Morris's voice as he, in the parlance of the day, 'Tore Ben a new one'.

While applying his willful kind of calculus to Newton's binomial series, Euler not only constructed the exponential function, but found out that its inverse had already been in the minds of the 17th century and thus detected the very nature of logarithms.