It must however be confessed on this head, that, as our air blows hot and cold--wet and dry, ten times in a day, we have them in no regular and settled way; --so that sometimes for near half a century together, there shall be very little wit or judgment either to be seen or heard of amongst us: ----the small channels of them shall seem quite dried up----then all of a sudden the sluices shall break out, and take a fit of running again like fury----you would think they would never stop: ----and then it is, that in writing, and fighting, and twenty other gallant things, we drive all the world before us.

It must however be confessed, that, as our air blows hot and cold, wet and dry, ten times in a day, we have them in no regular and settled way. Sometimes for near half a century together, there shall be very little wit or judgment to be seen or heard of amongst us: the channels of them shall seem quite dried up - then all of a sudden the sluices break out, and run like fury - and then, in writing, and fighting, and twenty other gallant things, we drive all the world before us.
