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Nearly Sane

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And now Corsica....
« on: December 11, 2017, 05:52:28 PM »
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Re: And now Corsica....
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2017, 06:48:31 PM »
I'll dig up Boswell and tell him the good news.....
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"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."

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Re: And now Corsica....
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2017, 06:56:08 PM »
Quote from: Anchorman on December 11, 2017, 06:48:31 PM
I'll dig up Boswell and tell him the good news.....


For anyone wondering


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Account_of_Corsica


Strange chap, Boswell. Sometimes reads like a sort of Alan Partridge of his time
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Re: And now Corsica....
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2017, 07:05:37 PM »
A kind of Marmite character (and, no, he did not use the stuff as a potential cure for his syphallis....)
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"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
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