This is what I should most like the English to know of me." He was a dull talker.

I supposed that philanthropists and state founders kept their best faculties for their higher pursuits.

I imagined the low, receding forehead and the pink-nailed, fleshy hands to belong to a new Solon, a latter-day AEneas.

I tried to work myself into the properly enthusiastic frame of mind.

After all, it was a great work that he had undertaken.