Discursorily

HAVING, in the preceding pages, discursorily looked to the works of some of the early Fathers, with the particular view of informing myself, whether they furnish any “Evidence” as to the order in which the Gospels were written, and having noticed the mal-version of Lardner in several instances, — I take this opportunity just to consider a still earlier document, which appears to me not to have been fully understood, from the inadequate translation commonly given of it.

But John Randolph, always happy in his element of universal opposition, battled against the men of his own section in his peculiar way, sometimes with ability, always discursorily, and frequently with the keenest satire.

Sir Rupert had no gift for writing; indeed, he rambles most discursorily, and is as great a vagabond with his pen as he seems to have been in his life.