Had he lived two centuries later he might have fancied, and may be with truth, that he suffered from neurasthenia.

In the full-blooded days of the early Georges the complaint was "vapours," otherwise liver, but no one troubled about nerves.

The ghastly heads of Jacobite rebels stuck on Temple Bar were looked upon with indifference by the passers-by.

The crowds which thronged to Tyburn to witness the half hangings and the hideous disembowelling which followed, while the poor wretches, found guilty of treason, were yet alive, had pretty much the sensation with which a gathering nowadays sees a dangerous acrobatic performance.
Vane had none of this brutish callousness.

He was more susceptible to sex influences.