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I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

~Adoniram Judson

Topics: American Company Consequence Death Dr Eleven Englishmen Five Greek June Lay Months Nine Nine Months Pairs Price Prison Seized Three Thrown Two War Where

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An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

~Austin O'Malley

Topics: Afterwards American Englishmen Pacing Seated Standing Thinks

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There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.

~Bhagat Singh

Topics: After Authority Britain Cannot Country Done Eliminated Englishmen Exercise Families Few India Officers Over Party Realise Result Sending Some Started Substantial Tension Terrified Time Will Work

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My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

~Bill Forsyth

Topics: Abroad Elder Englishmen Married Sisters Two

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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

~Edward Rutherfurd

Topics: Agony Always Ben Both British Carolina Claims Colonists Denied Descend Englishmen Families Franklin Give Give Me Government Had Helped Himself Insight Like Me Patriots Philadelphia Quakers Revolutionary Revolutionary War Separated Themselves Thought Until War Were Who Whose

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Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

Topics: Crime Englishmen Expression Honest Opinion Political Regarded Treated

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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

~George Saintsbury

Topics: Began English Englishmen Exceptions Found French Genius He Him Improve Interpret Latin Long Long Time Man Only Rarest Time Write Wrote

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