How could one doubt these things, when Pope and priest and scholar and King were all united in believing them, with no single voice of question in the whole wide world?

If your Hops are old and ill-husbanded, or worn out of heart, then about the beginning of Winter dig about them, and take away as much of the old barren Earth as you can, and apply good fat Mould or Compost to their Roots: If you cannot do it so soon, do not neglect it longer than January, or February, if the Weather be open, such Winter-dressings being a principal Renewal of decayed Hops; it will likewise kill the Weeds, Quitchgrass, &c.

Of all the people in the world our countrymen are the loathest to give away their money without some reasonable quid pro quo; […]

Does it shoot straight? Does it — say, listen, old top, can a duck swim? You bet your boots it shoots straight.