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As I did not come here to join a faction but a nation, and to deal with honest men and not with speculators or peculators, (charges bandied about daily by the Greeks of each other) it will require much circumspection to avoid the character of a partizan [...] After all, one should not despair, though all the foreigners that I have hitherto met with from amongst the Greeks are going or gone back home disgusted" (Letters, "Journal entry" Sept.

As a general rule of thumb, household coffee makers, depression equipment, peculators and espresso/Turkish coffee require average; finely ground; special ground; ultra-fine ground coffees, in that order.

Having perforce to build men of willow into a social fabric that calls for oak, we see on all hands monstrous treacheries--adulterators, peculators, boodlers, grafters, violating the trust others have placed in them.

been abandoned, as lawful prey, to every species of peculators; insomuch that many of the servants of the Company, after exhibiting such scenes of barbarity as can scarcely be paralleled in the history of any country, have returned to England loaded with wealth; where, intrenching themselves in borough or East-India-stock influence, they have set justice at defiance, either in the cause of their country or of oppressed innocence.