First, he must know that the machine is the worse for wear, being nearly eighty years old.

The reparation I propose he shall begin with is: One pair of new eyes, one pair of new ears, some improvement on the memory.

When this is done, we shall ask new legs, and some change in the stomach.

For the present, this first reparation will be sufficient; and we must not trouble the Doctor too much at once.'-- You see by this how easy his Lordship's infirmities sit upon him; and it is really so as he says.
Your friend Sir Andrew is, I am afraid, less gay; but I have not heard from him these three months." [Keith, i.

132, 133; "Dresden, 13th March, 1770:" to his Father.] CONWAY TO KEITH, ON THE LATE THREE DAYS AT POTSDAM.