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The dominion of the sea, as it is an ancient and undoubted right of the crown of England, so it is the best security of the land…The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.
Wooden walls = ships
Thomas Coventry
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
René Daumal
Thomas Coventry
Born:
1578
Died:
January 14, 1640
(aged 62)
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Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th century.
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