There's scarcely enough of it out of water to keep one's feet dry.

In two generations our population will exceed that of the British Isles.

But with so many lying agents over there what chance have they to learn anything about us?
They will expect to hear you tell of people being tomahawked in Philadelphia--a city as well governed as any in England.

They can not understand that most of us would gladly spend nineteen shillings to the pound for the right to spend the other shilling as we please." "Can they not be made to understand us ?" Jack inquired.
"The power to learn is like your hand--you must use it or it will wither and die.

There are brilliant intellects here which have lost the capacity to learn.