Pride, The First Peer And

I Have Since Often Observed, How Incongruous And Irrational The Common Temper Of Mankind Is, Especially Of Youth ... That They Are Not Ashamed To Sin, And Yet Are Ashamed To Repent; Not Ashamed Of The Action For Which They Ought Justly To Be Esteemed Fools, But Are Ashamed Of The Returning, Which Only Can Make Them Be Esteemed Wise Men.

Manchester, One Of The Greatest, If Not Really The Greatest Mere Village In England.

This Grieved Me Heartily ; And Now I Saw, Though Too Late, The Folly Of Beginning A Work Before We Count The Cost, And Before We Judge Rightly Of Our Own Strength To Go Through With It.

My True Name Is So Well Known In The Records, Or Registers At Newgate, And In The Old-baily, And There Are Some Things Of Such Consequence Still Depending There, Relating To My Particular Conduct, That It Is Not To Be Expected I Should Set My Name, Or The Account Of My Family To This Work; Perhaps, After My Death It May Be Better Known, At Present It Would Not Be Proper, No, Not Tho' A General Pardon Should Be Issued, Even Without Exceptions And Reserve Of Persons Or Crimes.

The Dutch Must Be Understood As They Really Are, The Middle Persons In Trade, The Factors And Brokers Of Europe... They Buy To Sell Again, Take In To Send Out Again, And The Greatest Part Of Their Vast Commerce Consists In Being Supply'd From All Parts Of The World, That They May Supply All Th World Again.