I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. Serious business was a trifle to him, and trifles were his serious business.

Nevertheless the Scotch veterans not only pushed forward with great speed, but succeeded in carrying their artillery with them. They entered Lincolnshire, and were not far from Sleaford, when they learned that Ginkell with an irresistible force was close on their track.

Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.