"As... the following sheets are the painful elaboration of many years, when my language or positions shall, in a casua…"

"Man exists in a world of his own creation. He cannot step, but on ground transformed by culture; nor look, but on obj…"

"To fix the fluctuating mass of theories, no man has suggested any other expedient than the construction of some new t…"

"As theories are the means by which we attempt to discourse of external existences that our senses cannot discover; an…"

"His majesty recollected the celebrated quack doctor, who when asked why his patrons were more numerous than those of …"

"In her youth she had indulged a passion towards a young monarch of a neighbouring island, Glanden, whose subjects, th…"

"War and fights, like courtship and kisses, are seldom interesting except to the actors and their connexions; hence I …"

"In Boresko, the government, though imperial, grants the people some power. They collect annually, and, marching to th…"

"The old lady Felderal had long railed at the emperor for not declaring war. She pretended that he feared to call on h…"

"All that the book contains is the elucidation of but one precept: namely, to interpret language by nature. We [genera…"