Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. - William Cobbett

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us, not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

I...had strong feelings excited in my mind against Scotland generally (always expressly making great exceptions) by observing that the scoundrelly “feelosofers”, who preached up a doctrine, tending to cause the people of England to be treated like cattle.

After this, who will say that an Englishman ought not to despise “all the nations of Europe?” For my part I do, and that most “heartily.”