But like the doctors of this wilderness, their science knew no specific: like the Babylonian workmen smitten with confusion of tongues, they had but one word in common, and that word was 'cut.' Mr.Goren contended that to cut was not the key of the science: but to find a Balance was.

An artistic admirer of the frame of man, Mr.
Goren was not wanting in veneration for the individual who had arisen to do it justice.

He spoke of his Balance with supreme self-appreciation.
Nor less so the Honourable Melville, who professed to have discovered the Balance of Power, at home and abroad.

It was a capital Balance, but inferior to Mr.Goren's.

The latter gentleman guaranteed a Balance with motion: whereas one step not only upset the Honourable Melville's, but shattered the limbs of Europe.