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"text": "1817 William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, New York: M'elrath, Bangs & Co., 1834, Section I, pp. 23-4, https://books.google.ca/books?id=5vE5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nI cannot learn that he gave in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius."
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"text": "1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell, Oxford University Press, Chapter XII, p. 242, https://books.google.ca/books?id=IbJ-31LPvyoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nAnna Comnena, the Byzantine princess turned historian, sees our eleventh-century forebears in just this light, as appears in the mixture of horror with contempt which is her reaction to the mechanical ingenuity of the Crusaders' cross-bow, a Western novelty of her day which—with the characteristic precocity of lethal inventions—preceded by several centuries the invention of clockwork […]"
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