[Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals by Samuel F. B. Morse]@TWC D-Link bookSamuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals CHAPTER VII 14/37
I saw a monarch who, for five-and-twenty years, had been an exile from his country, deprived of his throne, and, until within a few months, not a shadow of a hope remaining of ever returning to it again.
I saw him raised, as if by magic, from a private station in an instant to his throne, to reign over a nation which has made itself the most conspicuous of any nation on the globe.
I tried to think as he did, and, in the heat of my enthusiasm, I joined with heart and soul in the cries of _'Vive le roi!' 'Vive Louis!'_ which rent the air from the mouths of thousands.
As soon as he left the window, I returned home much fatigued, but well satisfied that my labor had not been for naught.... "Mr.Wilberforce is an excellent man; his whole soul is bent on doing good to his fellow men.
Not a moment of his time is lost.
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