I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics.
grand or great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life.
Расстановка переносов
grand or great climacteric, the six·ty-third year of hu-man life