419. Christopher Columbus
"...the age being now past of vagrant
excursion and fortuitous
hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to
court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser
of kingdoms in the clouds; nor has any part of the world yet had
reason to rejoice that he found, at last, reception and
employment."
Johnson: Taxation No Tyranny
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