"He was notable throughout a brief, thwarted career for the charm of his manner and his chivalrous ideals in public li…"

"I...was very different from the raw Irish lads who composed the greater part of the subalterns. One of them, of the n…"

"You just need to know what people are interested in," she says. "For some people, it's dogs; for someone else, it's a…"

"It is true that some physicians are vain, self-seeking, of the prima donna type, and there be others of the medieval …"

"The king of Spaine receives from this Estate [Milan] yearely eight hundred thousand duc∣kats of ordinarie, besides th…"

"[The Corsicanes] are so full of revenge, as the Italians have a common proverbe which saith, That they must never tru…"

"The Suevians are much given to incontinencie, and the women are as tractable as men can desire, and both the one and …"

"In the time of Kaykozrrao, there were in Persia two famous Philosophers, the one called Horez, the other Lokmon: of t…"

"The inhabitants of Paros were sometimes accused of disloyaltie, and to be no men of their words, because Miltiades, G…"

"The Hippopotame, or horse of the river, is tawnie, hath little haire, and leapes to land to feed, and in the day time…"