This pacificatory move – plus the political credit which he personally enjoyed – helped to stabilize the finances.

He is shabbily smart, and looks what he is, a slackish, hard-drinking unsuccessful man of forty-two.

Both minister and session were 'highly offended that he should have so far misregarded his pastor and provoked him to ire.'

What was the Opinion, concerning Byzantium, of Strabo preceding Ptolemy, or of Hipparchus preceding Strabo, or of Eratosthenes antienter, and it may be accurater than all of them, […]