Giustiniani explains that he had to make proposals to the cardinal before he broached them to Henry, lest Wolsey "should resent the precedence conceded to the king."
That also explains why you eat so much?
It explains, too, Panin's strange tenderness towards Poland.
The fourth book explains the divinity of the Scriptures, and deduces rules for their interpretation.
The existence of these two works explains the widely-spread taste for ornithology in England, which is to foreigners so puzzling, and the zeal - not always according to knowledge, but occasionally reaching to serious study - with which that taste is pursued.