“Thus in Compliance with your repeated desires, I have given you a short account of divers passages of my life, 'till I have now come to more than fourscore years of age. How well I have acquitted my self in each, is for others rather to say, than for Your friend and servant John Wallis.”

—  John Wallis

Oxford January 29. 1696, 7.
Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his own Life (1696)

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