All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.