“It is not enough to be the possessor of genius—the time and the man must conjoin. An Alexander the Great, born into an age of profound peace, might scarce have troubled the world—a Newton, grown up in a thieves’ den, might have devised little but a new and ingenious picklock.…”
Diversions of Historical Thought by
Diversions of Historical Thought byJohn Cleveland Cotton.
John Cleveland Cotton.(The following extracts have been made from the letters of General Sir Charles William Geoffrey Estcourt, C.B., to his sister Harriet, Countess of Stokely, by permission of the Stokely family. Omissions are indicated by triple dots, thus…)
St. Philippe-des-Bains, September 3d, 1788.
MY DEAR SISTER:… I could wish that my excellent Paris physician had selected some other spot for my convalescence.
