It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

OATS - A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Manners: 'Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are othe…

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.