Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Last and Two Preceding Centuries, Том 2T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1804 |
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Сторінка 61 - Turks' man of war tacked about, and we continued our course. But when your father saw it convenient to retreat, looking upon me, he blessed himself, and snatched me up in his arms, saying, ' Good God, that love can make this change !' and though he seemingly chid me, he would laugh at it as often as he remembered that voyage.
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Сторінка 91 - He was wont to say, that wisdom lay in the heart, and not in the head ; and that it was not the want of knowledge, but the pervorscness of the will, that filled men's actions with folly, and their lives with disorder.
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Сторінка 384 - I thank God that I have been enabled to come here this day — to perform my duty, and to speak on a subject which has so deeply impressed my mind. I am old and infirm — have one foot, more than one foot, in the grave — I am risen from my bed, to stand up in the cause of my country — perhaps never again to speak in this House.
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