“Come, let us arm with speed; and let us two
Try, what our forces may united do.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Book XIII
Homer His Iliads Translated (1660)
“So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.”
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