It is sixteen years since I saw the Queen of France.—Burke.

Manner.

Let the world go how it will.—Carlyle

Events proceed, not as they were expected or intended, but as they are impelled by the irresistible laws.—Ames.

Cause, reason.

I see no reason why I should not have the same thought.—Emerson.

Then Denmark blest our chief,
That he gave her wounds repose.
—Campbell.

Now he is dead, his martyrdom will reap
Late harvests of the palms he should have had in life.
—H. H. Jackson.

Sparing neither whip nor spur, seeing that he carried the vindication of his patron's fame in his saddlebags.—Irving.

Comparison.