phlegmaticus

Updated: June 12, 2025

So keen is their sense of pleasure and non-pleasure, and such is their FUROR PHLEGMATICUS on this particular question, that when it is proposed to establish a tax on matches an imperceptible duty which would enrich the Exchequer to a vast extent they will form a procession ten miles long to protest against the outrage, and threaten to batter down the Houses of Parliament. Why?

Norman Douglas - South Wind