But for this Mr.Tyrrel was indebted to a self-satisfied effrontery, and a boisterous and over-bearing elocution, by which he was accustomed to discomfit his assailants; while Mr.Falkland, with great ingenuity and candour of mind, was enabled by his extensive knowledge of the world, and acquaintance with his own resources, to perceive almost instantaneously the proceeding it most became him to adopt.
Mr.Tyrrel contemplated the progress of his rival with uneasiness and aversion.

He often commented upon it to his particular confidents as a thing altogether inconceivable.

Mr.Falkland he described as an animal that was beneath contempt.

Diminutive and dwarfish in his form, he wanted to set up a new standard of human nature, adapted to his miserable condition.

He wished to persuade people that the human species were made to be nailed to a chair, and to pore over books.