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Naturally quick and lively as he was, he sat as quiet and attentive in school, as if he had been gifted with a disposition as unmercurial as that of Daubeny himself.

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)

Labouring under old and absurd prejudices, he perhaps at present believes that we are a sober, unmercurial people, given to domestic habits, to the accumulation of wealth, and to our own internal improvements.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various