No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could astonish the world more than [England's] declaration of war against Holland in 1672.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest, and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till i…

'Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.