...the simple facts concerning longs and shorts that seem fairly apparent. Take a sentence like Burke's "Animated with all the avarice of age and all the...prospect | of new flights of | birds of | prey and I passage | with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting." We are at...

...fortune, with a view to a remote fettlement. Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuofity of youth, they roll in one after another ; wave after...there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endlefs, hopelefs profpect of new ffights of birds of prey and paflage, with appetites continually...

...sentences seem to ring for ever in the ear, in which the orator describes the young men who ruled India, with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, rolling in wave after wave, birds of prey and passage who leave no trace that England has been represented...