It is well known that the condition of a seaman subjects him to the necessity of spending a great part of his life at a distance from his native country, in places where he can neither hear of our designs, nor be instructed in our laws, and, therefore, it is evident that no law ought to affect him before a certain period of time, in which he may reasonably be supposed to have been informed of it.

No man ever before conceived the design of scattering poison for a certain period of time among the people, only to try what havock it would make.

The word 'day' in that connection means a certain period of time, not twenty-four hours.

[Footnote 092: We mean such only as are natives of the countries which we mention, and whose ancestors have been settled there for a certain period of time.

This is the best Reason I can give for the Observation which several have made, that Men of great Genius in the same way of Writing seldom rise up singly, but at certain Periods of Time appear together, and in a Body; as they did at Rome in the Reign of Augustus, and in Greece about the Age of Socrates.

But the matter of fact being true, it makes me think that there is something in it like fatality; that, after certain periods of time, the fame and memory of great wits should be renewed, as Chaucer is both in France and England.

There are certain Periods of Time in all Governments when this inhuman Spirit prevails.

This is the best Reason I can give for the Observation which several have made, that Men of great Genius in the same way of Writing seldom rise up singly, but at certain Periods of Time appear together, and in a Body; as they did at Rome in the Reign of Augustus, and in Greece about the Age of Socrates.

This mixture was allowed to set for a certain period of time, then cooked to a jelly-like consistency.